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Latitude: 55.7771 / 55°46'37"N
Longitude: -2.348 / 2°20'52"W
OS Eastings: 378269
OS Northings: 653802
OS Grid: NT782538
Mapcode National: GBR D11M.GX
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.X222
Plus Code: 9C7VQMG2+RR
Entry Name: 18 Langtongate & Gatepiers, Duns
Listing Name: 16 and 18 Langtongate with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Railings
Listing Date: 22 December 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363150
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26513
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363150
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 19th century. Symmetrical pair of semi-detached 2-storey 2-bay pattern book Tudor houses, set back from road on rising ground. Stugged coursed ashlar with polished dressings to front; harled to sides with long and short ashlar dressings. Base course; chamfered arrises.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: inner bays with deep set doors with Gothic panels and rectangular fanlights with Gothic glazing; stop-roll-moulded architraves; bracketed balconettes with pierced balustrading and moulded coping above; pair of narrow hoodmoulded closet windows between doors at ground; windows above doors at 1st floor. Single corbelled stack at centre, breaking eaves, with pair of coped ashlar diamond flues and octagonal cans. Advanced gabled outer bays with piend-
roofed canted window at ground (that to No18 cement-rendered); single hoodmoulded window at 1st floor with blank shield in gablehead; apex finial.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: gabled with window to each floor.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bays at centre. Unseen 1993.
Timber sash and case 12-lying-pane windows (uPVC replacements to No18). Grey slates; brick apex stacks to E and W; sawtooth ashlar coped skews; corbelled gablet skewputts.
INTERIOR: unseen 1993.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low rubble front wall with saddleback ashlar coping; each house with pair of capped octagonal pedestrian gatepiers. Cast-iron spearhead railings and gates. Further pier abutts 14 Langtongate to E. Tall coped rubble boundary wall to W.
The ashlar of both houses has been patched to a greater or lesser degree.
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