7 And 8 Market Square, Duns

Early 19th century. 3-storey 3-bay house with shop at ground. Stugged and coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Base course; band course above ground floor; dentilled cornice; flanking giant panelled pilasters. Raised margins; regular fenestration.

Massive pilastered Tuscan Doric doorpiece with dentilled cornice to right; deep-set panelled door with decorative rectangular fanlight. 3-bay ashlar shopfront to left; glazed door with rectangular fanlight containing decorative radial glazing; flanked by tall plate glass windows with glazing motif echoing fanlight.

Upper floors with window to each bay (taller at 1st floor); glazed

blind windows at centre.

Front elevation has blank return to S (meeting No6) with boarded door and 4-pane letterbox fanlight at ground. Rubble 4-bay rear elevation with modern harled extension at ground; stair window to inner left bay.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to front. Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; mutual stacks, ashlar to N, brick to S.