The Royal Bar, 15 Market Square, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Inn. 2 related planning applications.

The Royal Bar, 15 Market Square, Duns

WRENN ID
vacant-gargoyle-foxglove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1971
Type
Inn
Address
The Royal Bar, 15 Market Square, Duns, TD11 3BZ
OS grid reference
NT 785 539
Coordinates
55.7781, -2.34357
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Royal Bar is an early 19th-century, two-storey and attic inn located on a corner site in Market Square, Duns. The building is harled and painted white, featuring a cement base course designed to resemble bull-faced ashlar. The corners are chamfered at the base, and there is a cill course at the first floor that bears the name of the establishment. The eaves are cavetto moulded, and the building has a regular arrangement of windows. It includes gabled timber dormers with glazed side panels.

On the southeast elevation, there are four bays, with cellar doors located in the base course of the right and centre left bays, along with a pair of dormers. The west elevation has two bays, featuring a modern door in the left bay at ground level and an enlarged window to the right, along with a single dormer. The rear elevation has a projecting gable on the left side with a door at ground level and a window in the gablehead, while the right side consists of three bays, with a door to the left and a centre window at ground level that is blocked; it also has a single dormer. The windows are four-pane timber sash and case, with the lower panes etched at ground level. The roof is pitched and piended at the corner, covered with grey slates and featuring brick stacks.

The interior of the building has been much altered.

Local climate

The Royal Bar, 15 Market Square, 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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