On entering through the narrow split door we turn right and head into the lounge bar which in Robert Burns day was the original stabling. Here his horse would be well looked after by the Globe Inn groom until his business was concluded and he could head back from Dumfries to Jean at Ellisland Farm some six miles distant. The Globe could be described as a latter day car park, somewhere safe to leave your most precious asset!

Leaving the lounge we enter through a very low entrance to the snug bar 'guarded' by a sliding door