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Latitude: 55.7778 / 55°46'39"N
Longitude: -2.3472 / 2°20'50"W
OS Eastings: 378316
OS Northings: 653882
OS Grid: NT783538
Mapcode National: GBR D11M.MN
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.X1FH
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH3+44
Entry Name: Boston Free Church School, 43 Newtown Street, Duns
Listing Name: 43 Newtown Street
Listing Date: 9 June 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363193
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26554
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Duns, 43 Newtown Street, Boston Free Church School
ID on this website: 200363193
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: School building
1843. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay former Boston Free Church School. Squared and snecked cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings; rubble to side and rear. Chamfered reveals.
N (NEWTOWN STREET) ELEVATION: broad gabled central bay, slightly advanced and displaced to left, with windows to both floors and gablehead and entwined banner. Flanking bays with panelled door (modern to right) in roll-moulded round-headed doorpiece; mask keystone and tympanum containing large shell; large square panels at 1st floor; burning bush (?) to right with banner NEC TAMEN CONSUMEBATUR, and
banner entwined around frame and hand to left SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY - FEED MY LAMBS. Outer bays with windows to both floors and corbelled gabled stone dormerheads bearing shields.
W ELEVATION: gable with windows to right at 1st floor and attic.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: largely obscured; to left by No 8 Willis Wynd (see separate listing); to right by gabled single storey hall adjoined at right angles with tiny roofless bartizan at apex.
10-lying-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; gabletted ashlar coped skews; corbelled skewputts; rebuilt rendered or brick apex stacks; some octagonal cans.
The building to the rear seems to have been a Masonic Lodge at one time.
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