Parkside, Todlaw Road, Duns is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Villa.
Parkside, Todlaw Road, Duns
- WRENN ID
- keen-jade-amber
- 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
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NT 786 534
- Coordinates
- 55.77376, -2.3421
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Parkside is a stylised Jacobethan villa built in 1850, featuring a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay design. The exterior is made of coursed and stugged cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings and chamfered reveals.
The south elevation has a slightly advanced central bay with a curvilinear gable and an apex stack, adorned with ball finials at the kneelers. The gablehead is dated 1850. There is an arcaded, flattened semi-octagonal porch at the ground level, supported by mannered fluted columns with collars, strapwork bases, and dentilled capitals. The arches above the porch have blocked voussoirs and continue to the first floor as a five-light canted window, topped with a plain arcaded parapet featuring ball finials. The deep-set panelled door has roll-moulded stop-chamfered reveals. The flanking bays contain bipartite windows, corniced at the ground level, with dormerheads featuring curvilinear gables and ball finials on the first floor.
The east elevation is essentially blank with rubble gable ends. The north elevation is constructed of rubble, featuring two bays on the left and a projecting gabled bay on the right, which has a further single-storey gabled projection.
The west elevation has a gable on the right with windows on both floors. To the left, there is a lower rear wing with a first-floor window that breaks the eaves, topped by a gabled dormerhead. The villa has 10-pane timber sash and case windows, pitched roofs with concrete ridge tiles, and ashlar sawtooth coping to the skews. The corbelled gablet skewputts and chamfered apex stacks have been rebuilt and corniced in brick with swept angles.
Adjacent to the villa is a former gig house with a pitched roof made of sandstone, which now abuts the boundary wall to the northwest. It has a modern garage door with a timber lintel facing south, along with windows and a piend-roofed dormer on the west side. The gig house features sawtooth coped skews and corbel skewputts, large ball finials, and grey slates.
The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls and wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Parkside, Todlaw Road, 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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