16 Newtown Street, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. House.
16 Newtown Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sill-wax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16 Newtown Street, Duns, TD11 3DT
- OS grid reference
- NT 783 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77834, -2.34647
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 Newtown Street in Duns is an 18th-century terraced house that has been refronted. It is two stories high and has four bays. The facade features cement render that mimics ashlar stone, with a base course and raised margins, and the windows are arranged in a regular pattern. On the ground floor, there is a modern door in the inner left bay and a boarded service door in the right bay. The first floor has smaller windows. The eastern gable end is made of blank sandstone and is adjacent to a single-storey wing of No 14.
The rear elevation is not visible. The house has 4-pane timber sash and case windows, and the roof features ashlar coped mutual skews and red brick stacks. It has a steeply pitched roof covered with grey slates and includes three large Velux rooflights.
Local climate
16 Newtown 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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