Mauchline, 21 Loudoun Street, Poosie Nansies House
Inn (18th Century), Public House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mauchline, 21 Loudoun Street, Poosie Nansies House
Classification Inn (18th Century), Public House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cowgate; Jolly Beggar's Inn; Poosie Nansie's Hostelry
Canmore ID 42694
Site Number NS42NE 17
NGR NS 49843 27203
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42694
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Mauchline
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
Photographic Survey (September 1960)
Photographs of buildings in Mauchline, Ayrshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1960.
Publication Account (2006)
Old inns serve as a reminder of Mauchline's busy market and the many travellers who passed through. The side of Poosie Nansie's tavern bears the date 1700 and an account from 1858 by 'several aged persons' who were alive when Bums lived described it as: 'the house of the far-famed Poosie Nancy. This woman, along with her daughter, Racer Jess, kept a lodging house for vagrants ...’
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Mauchline: Archaeology and Development’ (2006).
