7 And 8 Market Square, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. House.

7 And 8 Market Square, Duns

WRENN ID
little-lancet-dew
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
House
OS grid reference
NT 785 538
Coordinates
55.77788, -2.34277
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

7 and 8 Market Square in Duns is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay house that includes a shop on the ground floor. The building is constructed from stugged and coursed cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. It features a base course, a band course above the ground floor, a dentilled cornice, and flanking giant panelled pilasters. The front has raised margins and regular fenestration.

To the right, there is a massive pilastered Tuscan Doric doorpiece with a dentilled cornice, leading to a deep-set panelled door with a decorative rectangular fanlight. The left side has a three-bay ashlar shopfront, which includes a glazed door with a rectangular fanlight that has decorative radial glazing, flanked by tall plate glass windows that echo the fanlight's motif.

The upper floors have a window in each bay, with the first-floor windows being taller. There are glazed blind windows in the center. The front elevation has a blank return to the south, which meets number 6 and features a boarded door with a four-pane letterbox fanlight at the ground level. The rear elevation is made of rubble and has a four-bay design with a modern harled extension at ground level, along with a stair window in the inner left bay.

The front is adorned with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has ashlar coped skews, with mutual stacks made of ashlar to the north and brick to the south.

Local climate

7 And 8 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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