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Post Office, 37 South Street, Duns

A Category C Listed Building in Duns, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7769 / 55°46'36"N

Longitude: -2.3457 / 2°20'44"W

OS Eastings: 378413

OS Northings: 653788

OS Grid: NT784537

Mapcode National: GBR D11M.YZ

Mapcode Global: WH8X7.Y255

Plus Code: 9C7VQMG3+QP

Entry Name: Post Office, 37 South Street, Duns

Listing Name: Post Office, 37 South Street

Listing Date: 22 December 1994

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363224

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26583

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200363224

Location: Duns

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Duns

Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire

Traditional County: Berwickshire

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Description

HM Office of Works, either Walter Wood Robertson or William Thomas Oldrieve, earlier 20th century. 3-bay single storey gabled post office. Squared and snecked bull-faced pink sandstone with ashlar dressings. Gabled outer bays joined by balustraded parapet. Left bay with door to left and window; doorcase with stop-roll-moulded arrises and cornice; 3-pane fanlight. Centre bay with 3 joined windows, narrow at centre with letterbox below; cornice. Door with 3-pane fanlight to right bay. Slits to gableheads.

Stone return to E; rendered gable to W. Brick range to rear.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates; crowstepped gables; small corbel skewputts. Cast-iron rainwaterheads to returns.

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