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Latitude: 55.7781 / 55°46'41"N
Longitude: -2.3442 / 2°20'39"W
OS Eastings: 378506
OS Northings: 653922
OS Grid: NT785539
Mapcode National: GBR D12M.8J
Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Y1W7
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH4+78
Entry Name: Working Men's Institute, 25, 26 Market Square, Duns
Listing Name: 25 and 26 Market Square, Incorporating the Working Men's Institute
Listing Date: 22 December 1994
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363163
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26526
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363163
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Working men's club
Dated 1877. 2-storey and attic 4-bay shop and meeting room. Cream sandstone ashlar; rubble to sides and rear.
S (MARKET SQUARE) ELEVATION: 4 closely spaced bays. Centre bays articulated by 3 Elizabethan columns at 1st floor, with supporting consoles dividing ground floor bays; columns fluted with strapwork bases, annulets and individual sections of cornice supporting coped parapet bearing legend WORKING MEN'S INSTITUTE A.D. 1877. Openings at ground with roll-moulded arrises; panelled door with rectangular fanlight to right bay; shop to 3 left bays with deep-set door at centre flanked by plate glass windows. Window to each bay at 1st floor, with
stop-chamfered arrises. Attic with curvilinear ashlar gable behind
parapet with pair of narrow basket-arched windows and crested shield and banner; flanked by pair of gabled ashlar dormers.
E (SIDE) ELEVATION: gable to left with boarded door to Meeting Room at ground and window above; single bay to right with window to both floors.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: irregular 3-bay gable. Timber windows; front with 4-pane sash and case to 1st floor and casements to attic. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates; brick apex stacks. Decorative cast-iron rainwaterhead and downpipe to left at front.
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