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Latitude: 55.778 / 55°46'40"N
Longitude: -2.3474 / 2°20'50"W
OS Eastings: 378305
OS Northings: 653912
OS Grid: NT783539
Mapcode National: GBR D11M.LK
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.X1C9
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH3+62
Entry Name: 28 Newtown Street, Duns
Listing Name: 28 Newtown Street with Attached Outbuildings to Rear
Listing Date: 9 June 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363204
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26565
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Duns, 28 Newtown Street
ID on this website: 200363204
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Terrace house
18th and 19th century incorporating earlier fabric. 2-storey and attic 3-bay end-of-terrace house with shop at ground on corner site. Harled, with some render; cement rendered margins, some painted.
S (NEWTOWN STREET) ELEVATION: regular 2-storey 3-bay; rendered at ground with band course above. Panelled door (to house) at centre; flanking windows, that to left enlarged (to shop); windows to each 1st floor bay.
W (GOURLAY'S WYND) ELEVATION: 2-bay gable end. Render and band course return to include glazed shop door to right; windows to left and to 1st floor bays. Round-headed window to centre of steep gablehead.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; right bay blank. Windows to centre bay; outbuildings at ground to left with window above.
OUTBUILDINGS: piend-roofed single storey L-plan outhouse adjoined to left at rear, abutting boundary wall. Window, and door in re-entrant angle.
Timber sash and case windows; 12- and 4-pane to ground, plate glass to 1st floor, multi-pane to attic. Very steep coped skews; grey slates; rebuilt brick stacks.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.
Reputed to be the oldest house in Duns. This is certainly borne out by the incredibly thick walls and steep, and deep, pitch of the roof, which must originally have been thatched.
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