County Welfare Office And Treasurers Department, 24 Newtown Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. Office.
County Welfare Office And Treasurers Department, 24 Newtown Street, Duns
- WRENN ID
- open-moulding-saffron
- 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
- Office
- OS grid reference
- NT 783 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77818, -2.34711
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The County Welfare Office and Treasurers Department, located at 24 Newtown Street in Duns, is a mid-19th century building. It is a two-storey structure with four bays and an additional set-back bay on the left, along with extensive rear additions. Originally built as a bank, it now serves as offices and features a plain Italianate style. The exterior is made of polished cream sandstone ashlar, while the set-back wing is squared, coursed, and stugged with polished dressings.
The principal block has a base course and features round-headed openings at the ground floor, which are set into a pilastered arcade with roll-moulded arrises. There is a cill course at the first floor and a cornice above, with regular fenestration throughout.
On the south (front) elevation, the four-bay principal block includes a deep-set doorway in the left bay, which has a two-leaf panelled oak door and a further inner glazed and panelled oak door. The first-floor windows are segmental-headed with chamfered arrises. The single bay return to the left continues the same detailing but is blank at the first floor. There is a two-storey single bay set back to the left, featuring a terminal pilaster, rectangular windows, a base course, a cill course at the ground, a band course between floors, a cornice, and a blocking course.
The rear elevation has not been seen since 1993. The building has timber sash and case windows, with plate glass in the principal block and otherwise 12-pane windows. The roof is piend-roofed, covered with grey slates, and features shouldered and corniced ashlar stacks.
To the left of the building, there is a segmental-headed carriage arch with a cornice and blocking course.
Local climate
County Welfare Office And Treasurers Department, 24 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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