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Latitude: 55.7779 / 55°46'40"N
Longitude: -2.3427 / 2°20'33"W
OS Eastings: 378598
OS Northings: 653893
OS Grid: NT785538
Mapcode National: GBR D12M.LM
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Z1KF
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH4+5W
Entry Name: 7 And 8 Market Square, Duns
Listing Name: 7 and 8 Market Square
Listing Date: 22 December 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363156
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26519
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Duns, 7 And 8 Market Square
ID on this website: 200363156
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century. 3-storey 3-bay house with shop at ground. Stugged and coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; band course above ground floor; dentilled cornice; flanking giant panelled pilasters. Raised margins; regular fenestration.
Massive pilastered Tuscan Doric doorpiece with dentilled cornice to right; deep-set panelled door with decorative rectangular fanlight. 3-bay ashlar shopfront to left; glazed door with rectangular fanlight containing decorative radial glazing; flanked by tall plate glass windows with glazing motif echoing fanlight.
Upper floors with window to each bay (taller at 1st floor); glazed
blind windows at centre.
Front elevation has blank return to S (meeting No6) with boarded door and 4-pane letterbox fanlight at ground. Rubble 4-bay rear elevation with modern harled extension at ground; stair window to inner left bay.
12-pane timber sash and case windows to front. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; mutual stacks, ashlar to N, brick to S.
The panelled pilasters are a common feature in Duns. The shopfront has recently been rebuilt, essentially copying the original. It is interesting to note that the 1st floor timber sash and case windows are double glazed.
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