Working Men's Institute, 25, 26 Market Square, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Shop, meeting room. 2 related planning applications.
Working Men's Institute, 25, 26 Market Square, Duns
- WRENN ID
- knotted-corner-fog
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Type
- Shop, meeting room
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1877. 2-storey and attic 4-bay shop and meeting room. Cream sandstone ashlar; rubble to sides and rear.
S (MARKET SQUARE) ELEVATION: 4 closely spaced bays. Centre bays articulated by 3 Elizabethan columns at 1st floor, with supporting consoles dividing ground floor bays; columns fluted with strapwork bases, annulets and individual sections of cornice supporting coped parapet bearing legend WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE A.D. 1877. Openings at ground with roll-moulded arrises; panelled door with rectangular fanlight to right bay; shop to 3 left bays with deep-set door at centre flanked by plate glass windows. Window to each bay at 1st floor, with
stop-chamfered arrises. Attic with curvilinear ashlar gable behind
parapet with pair of narrow basket-arched windows and crested shield and banner; flanked by pair of gabled ashlar dormers.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: gable to left with boarded door to Meeting Room at ground and window above; single bay to right with window to both floors.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay gable. Timber windows; front with 4-pane sash and case to 1st floor and casements to attic. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; brick apex stacks. Decorative cast-iron rainwaterhead and downpipe to left at front.
Detailed Attributes
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