42, 43 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.

42, 43 Market Square, Duns

WRENN ID
brooding-pinnacle-spindle
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
OS grid reference
NT 785 538
Coordinates
55.77771, -2.34412
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, located at 42 and 43 Market Square in Duns, is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay house with a shop on the ground floor situated on a corner site. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar, with a rendered section on the south side. It features a base course and a band course above the ground floor, with a regular arrangement of windows.

On the east elevation, the building is three bays wide and has a gabled roof framed by giant pilasters. The shop at ground level includes three round-headed openings set within a rusticated surround, with a panelled and glazed door in the center flanked by plate glass windows. The windows on the upper floors are blind. A town clock is positioned in the gablehead.

The south elevation also has three bays, featuring a central doorpiece with Tuscan Doric pilasters, a panelled door, and a decorative multi-pane fanlight. There is a giant corner pilaster to the right. The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews, and a brick stack.

Local climate

42, 43 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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