Former Duns Sheriff Court, 8 Newtown Street

Circa 1855 with circa 1904 courtroom addition to rear and later alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay, former sheriff court house with Tudor-Jacobean principal elevation. Large flat-roofed addition, circa 1967-9, to east not considered of interest in listing terms at time of review. Stugged, squared and snecked cream sandstone with ashlar dressings. Steps with coped ashlar balustrade and piers. 2-leaf panelled door at centre in moulded Tudor-arched doorcase. Tripartite windows with moulded ashlar mullions and transoms. Hoodmoulds incorporated into the moulded lintel course at ground floor. Cill course and lintel course to first floor windows with Tudor-arched upper lights. Shouldered gables with finials to slightly advanced outer bays. Smaller gable at centre with blank shield. 7-bay, M-gabled wing (circa 1904) former courtroom wing to rear with corbelled skewputts, linked to Newtown Street block via 2-storey linking block.

Sash and case and casement windows in timber frames. Horizontal panes to front elevation, 12 pane glazing to rear elevation. Grey slates with fish scale courses to front pitch. Ashlar-coped skews to rear. Coped ashlar stacks with octagonal cans. Decorative cast iron rainwater heads.

The interior, seen 2014, has been significantly remodelled and altered (including court room furniture replacement) circa 1989 to accommodate the changing needs of the building and the court service.

Low ashlar boundary wall to Newtown Street with saddleback coping.