4 And 5 Golden Square, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. House.

4 And 5 Golden Square, Duns

WRENN ID
lunar-screen-coral
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
House
OS grid reference
NT 784 538
Coordinates
55.7774, -2.345
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 and 5 Golden Square in Duns is an early 19th-century house with later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features a shop at ground level on a corner site. The exterior is rendered to resemble ashlar, with stugged detailing on the east side and ashlar dressings.

On the east elevation facing Golden Square, the building has a two-bay design flanked by pilaster strips. The ground floor features a three-bay shopfront with stop-chamfered arrises, where shop windows are positioned beside a central door, topped with a fascia. The first floor has a pair of windows, while the attic includes a central bipartite window that breaks the eaves, complete with a pedimented dormer head, bracketed cills, and a ball finial.

The north elevation features a blank gable on the left and three irregular bays on the right. At the center, there is a deep-set panelled door flanked by windows, with two additional windows on the first floor. A piend-roofed canted timber dormer is also present. The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews along with a brick apex stack that has an ashlar base.

Local climate

4 And 5 Golden 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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