Working Men's Institute, 25, 26 Market Square, Duns

The Working Men's Institute, located at 25 and 26 Market Square in Duns, was built in 1877. This two-storey building with an attic features a four-bay shop and meeting room. It is constructed of cream sandstone ashlar, with rubble on the sides and rear.

The south elevation facing Market Square has four closely spaced bays. The central bays are highlighted by three Elizabethan columns on the first floor, which are supported by consoles that divide the ground floor bays. The columns are fluted and have strapwork bases, annulets, and individual sections of cornice that support a coped parapet. The parapet bears the inscription "WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE A.D. 1877." The ground floor openings have roll-moulded arrises, with a panelled door and rectangular fanlight in the right bay. The three left bays contain a shop with a deep-set door at the center flanked by plate glass windows. Each bay on the first floor has windows with stop-chamfered arrises. The attic features a curvilinear ashlar gable behind the parapet, which has a pair of narrow basket-arched windows and a crested shield and banner, flanked by two gabled ashlar dormers.

The east side elevation has a gable on the left with a boarded door leading to the Meeting Room at ground level and a window above. The single bay to the right has windows on both floors.

The north rear elevation has an irregular three-bay gable with timber windows. The front features a four-pane sash and case window on the first floor and casements in the attic. The building has ashlar coped skews, grey slates, and brick apex stacks. There is also a decorative cast-iron rainwater head and downpipe on the left side at the front.