19-21 Castle Street, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1994. House, shops.

19-21 Castle Street, Duns

WRENN ID
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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
House, shops
OS grid reference
NT 784 539
Coordinates
55.77858, -2.34474
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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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

19-21 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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