47 Market Square, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

47 Market Square, Duns

WRENN ID
quartered-pillar-myrtle
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
House
Address
47 Market Square, Duns, TD11 3BX
OS grid reference
NT 785 538
Coordinates
55.77744, -2.34406
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

47 Market Square in Duns is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey and attic, three-bay house. The exterior is rendered and lined with painted ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are harled. It features bipartite timber box dormers.

The northern front elevation includes a base course, a band course above the ground floor, a cill course, a dentilled cornice, and rusticated long and short quoins. The windows have raised margins and regular spacing, with the first-floor windows featuring fluted aprons. At the center, there is a Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece with a broad flush-panelled door and a semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing. There are three dormers on this elevation.

The western elevation has a blank gable. The southern elevation is three-bay with a projecting drum stair tower at the center, which has a door on the side at ground level and a tall stair window. The flanking bays each have windows on both floors and dormers.

The house has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in the dormers. The roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar coped skews and a rendered stack. The interior was unseen in 1993.

Local climate

47 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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