16 Langtongate & Gatepiers, Duns

Mid 19th century. Symmetrical pair of semi-detached 2-storey 2-bay pattern book Tudor houses, set back from road on rising ground. Stugged coursed ashlar with polished dressings to front; harled to sides with long and short ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered arrises.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: inner bays with deep set doors with Gothic panels and rectangular fanlights with Gothic glazing; stop-roll-moulded architraves; bracketed balconettes with pierced balustrading and moulded coping above; pair of narrow hoodmoulded closet windows between doors at ground; windows above doors at 1st floor. Single corbelled stack at centre, breaking eaves, with pair of coped ashlar diamond flues and octagonal cans. Advanced gabled outer bays with piend-

roofed canted window at ground (that to No18 cement-rendered); single hoodmoulded window at 1st floor with blank shield in gablehead; apex finial.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: gabled with window to each floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bays at centre. Unseen 1993.

Timber sash and case 12-lying-pane windows (uPVC replacements to No18). Grey slates; brick apex stacks to E and W; sawtooth ashlar coped skews; corbelled gablet skewputts.

INTERIOR: unseen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low rubble front wall with saddleback ashlar coping; each house with pair of capped octagonal pedestrian gatepiers. Cast-iron spearhead railings and gates. Further pier abutts 14 Langtongate to E. Tall coped rubble boundary wall to W.