38, 39, 44, 45 Market Square, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Shop.
38, 39, 44, 45 Market Square, Duns
- WRENN ID
- narrow-gutter-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Type
- Shop
- OS grid reference
- NT 785 538
- Coordinates
- 55.77771, -2.3443
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
38, 39, 44, 45 Market Square in Duns is a late 19th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay double-fronted shop, flanked by buildings on both sides, with identical elevations. The structure features coursed cream ashlar stone, polished at the ground level and stugged on the first floor, with polished dressings. It has a base course, alternating buckle quoins, stop-roll-moulded arrises at the ground level, and raised margins on the first floor.
On the ground floor to the right, there is a three-bay shop with a central two-leaf panelled door, flanked by large plate glass shop windows. The left bay has a corresponding panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight above.
Above this, there is a band course, three windows on the first floor, and three segmental-headed timber dormers. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered in grey slates, with ashlar coped skews and corniced ashlar stacks. Moulded cast-iron gutters with decorative brackets and downpipes complete the exterior.
Local climate
38, 39, 44, 45 Market Square, Duns receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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