Barniken Hotel, 18 Murray Street, Duns

The Barniken Hotel, located at 18 Murray Street in Duns, is an earlier 19th century building that has undergone later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay classical villa featuring a polished cream sandstone ashlar front, with dressed rubble on the sides and rear.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, has a base course, panelled corner pilasters, a cornice, and a low parapet. The centre bay is slightly advanced and includes a Tuscan doorpiece with engaged columns flanking a segmental-headed doorway. This doorway features a deep-set two-leaf fielded panelled door and an etched glass inner door, topped by a segmental umbrella fanlight. There is a window on the first floor. The flanking bays have later canted windows with cornices and blocking courses at the ground level, and windows on the first floor.

The northwest elevation consists of two bays; the ground level is blank, while there are windows on the first floor, with the right window being blind. A wallhead stack is located at the centre, and garages are attached at ground level to the right.

On the southwest (rear) elevation, there are two lower projecting two-storey bays at the centre, with the left bay containing a window on the first floor. A modern lean-to conservatory with a corrugated roof is present at ground level.

The southeast elevation has a lower set-back bay to the left with windows on both floors. The main block to the right features a door at ground level and a window on the first floor to the left, with a wallhead stack at the centre.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in the canted windows. The roofs are piended and covered with grey slates, and there are corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal cans.

The interior has been converted for hotel use. The boundary wall consists of rubble with saddleback ashlar coping, and there are a pair of square ashlar gatepiers with stepped pyramidal caps and stop-chamfered arrises.