Post Office, 37 South Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Post office.
Post Office, 37 South Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- strange-garret-ochre
- 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
- Post office
- OS grid reference
- NT 784 537
- Coordinates
- 55.77693, -2.34571
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office at 37 South Street in Duns is a single-storey building with a gabled roof, designed in the early 20th century by either Walter Wood Robertson or William Thomas Oldrieve. It features a three-bay layout constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced pink sandstone, with ashlar dressings. The outer bays are connected by a balustraded parapet.
The left bay includes a door positioned to the left, accompanied by a window. The doorcase has stop-roll-moulded arrises and a cornice, topped with a three-pane fanlight. The central bay contains three joined windows, with the narrowest window in the center featuring a letterbox below it, and a cornice above. The right bay has a door with a three-pane fanlight. There are slits in the gableheads.
To the east, there is a stone return, while the west side has a rendered gable. At the rear, there is a brick range. The building is adorned with 12-pane timber sash and case windows, covered by grey slates. It features crowstepped gables and small corbel skewputts, with cast-iron rainwater heads on the returns.
Local climate
Post Office, 37 South 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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