16 Murray Street, Duns

This is a substantial, mid-19th century, two-storey Tudor double villa, now subdivided. It is built of coursed and stugged cream sandstone with ashlar dressings. A base course is visible, and the window reveals are chamfered with deeply swept cills.

The south-east elevation, facing Murray Crescent, has four bays. The bay on the left is advanced and gabled, featuring a two-storey canted window with a cornice and solid parapet, topped with a squared finial. A gabled porch, projecting from the left-hand re-entrant angle, has a window to its return wall. A panelled door, set within a Tudor frame with a 12-pane rectangular fanlight and stepped hoodmould with foliate label-stops, is accessed by three steps. The left bay also has a ground-floor window, and a stepped tripartite window above which is blind apart from the centre light, topped by a gabled dormerhead with a similar finial. The right bay is also advanced and gabled, with a corniced bipartite bay window at ground level and a single, hoodmoulded window above. A blank shield and banner are positioned in the gablehead.

The north-east elevation, facing Murray Street, also has four bays. A narrow, advanced, gabled bay on the right has a door at ground level and a tripartite window above, both matching the details of the porch, and a blank shield above the central light of the window. To its right are a pair of tall, narrow, blind slits, with a window at the first floor. The left bays have narrow, hoodmoulded, blinded windows at ground level, and blank windows at the first floor, with a corbelled wallhead stack.

The south-west side elevation has five bays. A two-leaf panelled door and a 12-pane rectangular fanlight are present in the inner right bay. Flanking bays and the inner right bay contain windows to each floor; the first-floor windows are set against the eaves. The right bay is gabled, with a stack corbelled at the apex.

The north-west rear elevation is irregular in shape, with a gabled U-plan and a projecting single-storey range at the centre. An out-of-character external timber stair has been added.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case, with multi-pane glazing to the principal fronts. The roof is covered with grey slates, and has moulded ashlar coped skews with corbelled skewputts and brick stacks.

The interior was not inspected during a 1993 survey.

A low ashlar boundary wall with saddleback coping and cast-iron railings defines the frontages of Murray Crescent and Murray Street; coped octagonal gatepiers and a pedestrian wrought-iron gate mark the corner. Murray Street also features a higher wall with a panelled pier. Rubble and ashlar walls, with a gatepier, form the rear boundary.