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Latitude: 55.7785 / 55°46'42"N
Longitude: -2.3441 / 2°20'38"W
OS Eastings: 378513
OS Northings: 653959
OS Grid: NT785539
Mapcode National: GBR D12M.9D
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Y0XZ
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH4+99
Entry Name: 18 Castle Street, Duns
Listing Name: 18 Castle Street
Listing Date: 9 June 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363110
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26480
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363110
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Courthouse
Later 18th century, with later shopfront at ground. 2-storey and
attic 3-bay former courthouse, now shop and house. White painted harl with black painted ashlar margins.
SW (CASTLE STREET) ELEVATION: at ground, full width base course and blocked cavetto cornice; to left, deep-set panelled door (to flat) with rectangular fanlight; to right, 3-bay shopfront with 2-leaf glazed panelled door with rectangular fanlight at centre, flanked by plate glass shop windows. 3 regular windows at 1st floor. Moulded eaves. Pair of gablehead dormers with brick infill.
NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Windows to both floors to left. Small window to 1st floor at centre. Broad irregular right bay with panelled door at ground and small window abutting to right; large stair window abutting above.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-bay, gabled. Window to each bay at ground and 1st floor; round-headed window with key-stone and impost-blocks at centre of gablehead. Apex stack.
Timber sash and case 12-pane windows (replaced at ground to rear); multi-pane to stair. Piended roof, gabled to rear; grey slates; ashlar coped skews with corniced skewputts.
INTERIOR: court room to rear at ground with egg and dart cornice; screen of fluted Ionic columns with bolection moulded frieze to side with panelled judge's niche at centre; some fielded panelling remains behind later surfaces.
The former Courtroom is in a welcome state of preservation.
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