Police Station, Newton Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Police station. 1 related planning application.
Police Station, Newton Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- floating-quoin-cream
- 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
- Police station
- Address
- Police Station, Newton Street, Duns, TD11 3DT
- OS grid reference
- NT 784 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77865, -2.34574
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The police station on Newton Street in Duns was built in 1895 and is a symmetrical, two-storey building with three bays. It is constructed from coursed stugged cream sandstone ashlar, featuring polished dressings, raised margins, and rolled arrises. The building has a base course and a central panelled door topped with a three-pane rectangular fanlight, which is framed by a roll-moulded architrave and cornice. Above the door is a panel inscribed with "COUNTY POLICE OFFICE 1895." The flanking bays contain pairs of windows.
On the first floor, the windows break the eaves and are topped with pedimented dormerheads. There is a moulded cill course, and the central window features flanking pilasters and a segmental pediment, while the side windows are bipartite. The rear elevation is irregular and projects at the ground floor.
The windows are timber sash and case, with 12-pane single windows and 8-pane bipartite windows. The building has an ashlar coped skew and corniced stack, terracotta ridge tiles, and is covered with grey slates.
Local climate
Police Station, Newton Street, 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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