21 Castle Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. 1 related planning application.
21 Castle Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- drifting-foundation-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1994
- Address
- 21 Castle Street, Duns, TD11 3DS
- OS grid reference
- NT 784 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77864, -2.34482
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
19-21 Castle Street in Duns is a mid-19th century, three-storey, three-bay house that features shops on the ground floor, forming part of a stepped terrace. The building is constructed from coursed stugged cream sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. It has a regular arrangement of windows with raised margins, blocked cills, and quoin strips.
On the ground floor, there is an Ionic pilastrade and a dentilled cornice. The central entrance consists of a deep-set panelled door topped with a rectangular plate glass fanlight, flanked by a pair of three-bay shopfronts. Each shopfront includes a deep-set panelled and glazed door alongside plate glass windows. The northern gable is blank and harled. The upper floors are fitted with timber four-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and features rebuilt brick stacks and ashlar coped skews.
Local climate
21 Castle 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- The Horn Inn, 2 Newtown Street, Duns
- Boston House, 13 Newtown Street, Duns
- 18 Castle Street, Duns
- Former Duns Sheriff Court, 8 Newtown Street