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57 Market Square, C, B, 56, 56A, Duns

A Category C Listed Building in Duns, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7775 / 55°46'38"N

Longitude: -2.3435 / 2°20'36"W

OS Eastings: 378551

OS Northings: 653850

OS Grid: NT785538

Mapcode National: GBR D12M.FR

Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Z16Q

Plus Code: 9C7VQMG4+XJ

Entry Name: 57 Market Square, C, B, 56, 56A, Duns

Listing Name: 56, 56A, B and C and 57 Market Square

Listing Date: 22 December 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363175

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26538

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363175

Location: Duns

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Duns

Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire

Traditional County: Berwickshire

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Description

Late 19th century. 3-storey L-plan house with shops at ground on corner site. Coursed stugged cream sandstone with polished dressings; rubble to rear.

NE (MURRAY STREET) ELEVATION: 2-bay with 5-bay polished ashlar shopfronts at ground. Shops with base course, basket-arched openings with moulded angles, fascia and moulded cill course to 1st floor; 2-leaf panelled doors to 2nd and 4th bays (1 blocked) with plate glass windows between; panelled pilaster at corner. 1st floor with round-headed bipartite window to each bay. At 2nd floor bipartite windows breaking eaves with pedimented dormerheads. Moulded eaves.

NW (MARKET SQUARE) ELEVATION: broad left bay detailed as above with single shop window disposed to left between panelled pilasters; chamfered angle at ground corbelled to square at fascia. 4-bays set back to right; left bay with panelled door and plate glass letterbox fanlight; pedimented overdoor supported on brackets. Upper floors with window to each bay.

SE ELEVATION: 4-bay; window to each bay to upper floors.

SW ELEVATION: blank gable to right.

Timber sash and case windows; 4- and 3-horizontal-pane to 1st and 2nd floors respectively to front; 12-pane to rear. Grey slates; ashlar coped stacks; corniced brick apex stacks with ashlar bases.

Statement of Interest

There is now only a single shop at ground, and the house has been sub-divided; an attic has been created with velux rooflights to the rear. The re-entrant angle to rear is largely occupied by the neighbouring building, leaving only a narrow wynd for access to the flats.

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