29, 30 Market Square, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
29, 30 Market Square, Duns
- WRENN ID
- woven-mullion-cedar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 29, 30 Market Square, Duns, TD11 3BY
- OS grid reference
- NT 784 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77806, -2.34449
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
29 and 30 Market Square in Duns is a late 18th-century building featuring two storeys and an attic, designed as a three-bay shop with a flat above. The exterior is rendered and lined with painted margins, and there is a base course at the bottom. The bays are arranged to the right, with a three-bay shop on the ground floor that has a central door flanked by large plate glass windows. Each bay on the upper floors has a window, with rounded arrises on the first floor. There is a piend-roofed dormer on the left side.
To the left, a harled gabled return abuts the Swan Hotel, while to the right, there is a plate glass shop window. The central entrance features a panelled door with a fanlight above and windows, although the second floor window is blind. The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass on the front and multi-pane windows on the return. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews and a rendered stack at the apex.
Local climate
29, 30 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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