23, 27 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 building.

23, 27 Market Square, Duns

WRENN ID
eternal-chapel-peregrine
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 building
OS grid reference
NT 785 539
Coordinates
55.77811, -2.34432
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

23 and 27 Market Square in Duns is a mid-18th century building that has undergone later rebuilding. It is a three-storey, two-bay shop with a flat above. The ground floor features a plain three-bay rendered shopfront with a door flanked by large windows. The upper floors have had their render removed, revealing patched rubble, with windows in each bay grouped towards the centre, and painted ashlar margins and an eaves course. A Velux rooflight is present.

At the rear, there is a projecting gable with steps leading to a panelled door and a window on the ground floor, and a single window on the first floor. The right return has windows on both floors. The front has fixed 12-pane timber windows, while the rear features 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is an ashlar coped mutual skew and a brick stack.

Inside, there are panelled shutters and doors along with simple moulded cornices. Recent plaster removal has exposed some timber-framed walls with handmade brick infill.

Local climate

23, 27 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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