40, 41 Market Square, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Tenement. 2 related planning applications.
40, 41 Market Square, Duns
- WRENN ID
- sacred-tin-bittern
- 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
- Tenement
- Address
- 40, 41 Market Square, Duns, TD11 3AL
- OS grid reference
- NT 785 538
- Coordinates
- 55.77778, -2.34417
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
40 and 41 Market Square in Duns is a late 19th-century, three-storey tenement building with a shop on the ground floor, situated on a corner site. The structure features coursed and stugged cream ashlar, which is painted at the ground level. It has a base course, a band course above the ground floor, and raised tabbed margins. The building exhibits regular fenestration and has a chamfered angle with a window on each floor.
The east elevation is two bays and gabled, with a two-leaf fielded panelled door for the shop on the right at ground level, accompanied by a large plate glass shop window to the left. The windows in the right bay of the upper floors are blind.
The north elevation is also two bays. The left bay is gabled and features a shop window at ground level, while the right bay has a window at ground level and a panelled door with a rectangular plate glass fanlight to the right.
The building is fitted with four-pane timber sash and case windows. It has a piend and pitched roof covered with grey slates, ashlar coped skews, corbel skewputts, and original corniced brick apex stacks.
Local climate
40, 41 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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