Carpet Warehouse, Currie Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Church.

Carpet Warehouse, Currie Street, Duns

WRENN ID
frozen-hammer-bramble
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1994
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Carpet Warehouse on Currie Street in Duns is a hall church built in 1851, featuring a gabled Gothic facade. The building is constructed from cream sandstone, with coursed and stugged stonework at the front and polished ashlar dressings. It has lancet windows with chamfered edges and hoodmoulds, as well as crenellated parapets.

The southwest elevation, facing Currie Street, is a symmetrical three-bay design. At the center, there is an engaged porch flanked by crenellated octagonal corner towers and a parapet. The porch features a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould and a corresponding glazed fanlight, along with two-leaf panelled doors. Above the doorway is a boarded-up three-light Tudor-arched window with intersecting tracery and a hoodmould. The gablehead displays a blind quatrefoil inscribed with "BUILT 1765 REBUILT 1851." Flanking windows are present, and the octagonal corner towers have ashlar pinnacles with gabled facets, chevroned crenellations on the skews, and a corbelled birdcage bellcote at the apex, which has pointed-arch openings on each face.

The southeast elevation features three windows and a plain boarded door on the left side. The windows have timber mullions and simple tracery. The northwest elevation also has three windows without hoodmoulds, which are boarded up, but the timber tracery remains visible. The northeast (rear) elevation has a pair of windows with timber astragals on the lancets and stained glass at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a later rendered chimney stack at the rear, along with ashlar coped skews and corbel skewputts.

Inside, the building is currently used as a carpet warehouse and features a flat ceiling with a plaster rose at the center, along with a U-plan stepped gallery. Memorials can be found in the narthex.

The property is enclosed by a low dressed sandstone boundary wall at the front, topped with saddleback ashlar coping, and there are a pair of low capped octagonal ashlar gatepiers at the center.

Additionally, there is a single-storey four-bay hall, now converted into a house, located to the east at right angles to the church. This hall is made of dressed cream sandstone and has bipartite windows with chamfered edges in each bay. There is a corniced door in a flat-roofed link to the church on the left, and modern plate glass windows have been added. The hall also features ashlar coped skews and grey slate roofing.

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