8 South Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Terraced house.
8 South Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- former-shingle-gilt
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Type
- Terraced house
- OS grid reference
- NT 784 538
- Coordinates
- 55.77739, -2.34471
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 South Street in Duns is a later 19th century, two-storey terraced house with an attic, featuring three bays. The building is constructed from snecked and stugged cream sandstone, accented with ashlar dressings. It has a base course, long and short quoins, and moulded eaves. The windows are regularly spaced, with raised margins and roll-moulded arrises. The ground floor windows have cornices, while the first floor features windows with bracketed cills, cornices, and fascia. The central door is topped with a rectangular plate glass fanlight and a bracketed cornice. There are also two modern bipartite timber box dormers. The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slates, has ashlar coped skews, and features brick stacks.
Local climate
8 South Street, 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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