Boston House, 13 Newtown Street, Duns

Rebuilt 1893, incorporating earlier fabric. 2-storey 5-bay T-plan

pair of houses. Rubble with ashlar margins; chamfered arrises;

1st floor windows hard under eaves.

N (NEWTOWN STREET) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 5-bay. Windows to both floor of centre and outer bays; inner left bay with round-headed opening to pend (modern door to left inside pend) at ground and plaque REBUILT A.D. 1893 above; inner right bay with modern door and rectangular fanlight (No 13) at ground and plaque above THOMAS BOSTON WAS BORN IN THIS HOUSE MARCH 17 1676 ... &c.

W ELEVATION: gable rendered and lined as ashlar to left with window at 1st floor; irregular 2-storey 2-bay range set back to right.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: blank projecting gable to left with truncated apex stack. 3 irregular harled bays to right; pend and 3 windows at ground; 3 windows at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: blank projecting gable to right. 3 irregular bays to left; door and 3 windows at ground; 3 windows at 1st floor.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; ashlar coped skew to E (essentially of former adjoining building); brick apex stacks.