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15 Black Bull Street, The Black Bull Hotel15 Black Bull Street, The Black Bull Hotel · Photo: Victuallers · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Duns · Historic Environment Scotland

157 listed buildings, 69 of them in the second category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Duns’s locality, 504 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 88 of Duns’s listed buildings. We have photos of 29 of its listed buildings.

69Category B15on Castle Street
Listed buildings
157
504 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
69
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Duns in 29 photos

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Church Square, Old Parish Church with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and GraveyardChurch Square, Old Parish Church with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and GraveyardCategory B listedStation Road, The Knoll Maternity Hospital with Boundary Wall and GatepiersStation Road, The Knoll Maternity Hospital with Boundary Wall and GatepiersCategory B listedMercat Cross, Market SquareMercat Cross, Market SquareCategory B listed13 Castle Street, Ogwen13 Castle Street, OgwenCategory B listedPublic Park, War MemorialPublic Park, War MemorialCategory C listed+24See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

The map

Where Duns’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Duns Castle, garden or designed landscapeBridgend, Haymount with Boundary Wall, Gates, Gatepier and Stables, Category BBridgend, Lanark Lodge with Stable Buildings, Category BChurch Square, Old Parish Church with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Graveyard, Category BDuns Castle Estate, North Lodge and Entrance Arch, Category BDuns Castle, South Lodge, Boundary Walls Gates and Gateway, Category BLangtongate, Berwickshire High School, Category BLangtongate, Sunnyside with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BMaryfield, Murray Street with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BMercat Cross, Market Square, Category BPreston Road Kirkwell House (Former Rectory) with Boundary Wall, Category BPreston Road Wellfield House, With Gatepiers, Terrace and Boundary Wall, Category BPreston Road, Christ Church (Episcopal) with Steps, Boundary Wall, Gates, Lamp Standard and Burial Ground, Category BStation Road, Blyth Bank with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BStation Road, County Council Offices, Southfield, With Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gate, Category BStation Road, Morelands with B0UNDARY Wall and Gates, Category BStation Road, Norham Lodge with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BStation Road, The Hermitage with Garage, Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BStation Road, The Knoll Maternity Hospital with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category BStation Road, The Wellnage with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BStation Road, Todlaw with Boundary Wall and Gateway, Category BStation Road, Wellnage Stables and Cottage, Category BTiendhillgreen, Mount View with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BTodlaw Road Parkside, With Former Gig House, Boundary Wall and Gates, Category B1 Clouds with Former Gig House and Stable, And Boundary Wall, Category B1 Tiendhillgreen, Category B1-7 (Odd Nos) South Street, Category B11 Currie Street with Front Wall, Gatepiers and Railings, Category B11 and 12 Market Square, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Category B12 and 12A Currie Street with Gatepiers, Former Stable, And Hayloft, Category B13 Castle Street, Ogwen, Category B13 and 15 South Street, Category B14 Newtown Street, County Offices with Gatepiers and Railings, Category B14 and 16 Murray Street, Marchcroft and Adjoining House with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B15 Market Square, The Whip and Saddle, Category B15 Tiendhillgreen with Conservatory, Boundary Wall and Gateway, Category B16 Market Square, Category B16 Newtown Street, Category B16 and 18 Langtongate with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Railings, Category B18 Castle Street, Category B18 Murray Street, Barniken Hotel with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B25 and 26 Market Square, Incorporating the Working Men's Institute, Category B28 Market Square, Category B28 Newtown Street with Attached Outbuildings to Rear, Category B29 Castle Street, Category B29 Newtown Street with Attached Barn and Stables to Rear, With Sundial, Category B3 Clouds, Rosebank with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B31-34 (Inclusive Nos) Market Square, The White Swan Hotel, Category B35 South Street with Boundary Wall, Category B36 and 37 Market Square (Northern Rock Building Society and Fpc&G Solicitors), Category B38, 39, 44 and 45 Market Square (Wightmans), Category B40 Newtown Street with Garden Wall, Category B41 Castle Street, Category B42 and 43 Market Square, Tolbooth House, Category B43 Castle Street, Category B43 Newtown Street, Category B44 Newtown Street with Coach House, Out House, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Category B46 Market Square and 2 South Street, Former Dunlop Trust Hotel, Category B47 Easter Street, Kirklands, With Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B47 Market Square, Category B48 and 49 Market Square, Category B5 Market Square and 2 Church Square, Category B50 and 51 Market Square, Category B59 Easter Street, Mansefield with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category B6 Church Square Parish Church Halls, Category B62 Castle Street, Category B7 Tiendhillgreen with Boundary Walls, Category B7 and 8 Market Square, Category B76 Castle Street, Watertank, Category B9 Currie Street (National Farmers Union), Category B
Category BPark or garden

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157 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A69 Category B88 Category C

Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Category B

The 69 Category B listed buildings in Duns

Buildings of regional importance. 27 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 57
Historic streets

Castle Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Castle Street15 listed · 5 II*
18 Castle Street
Market Square11 listed · 6 II*
16 Market Square28 Market Square47 Market Square
Newtown Street9 listed · 2 II*
Langtongate5 listed
South Street5 listed · 1 II*
13 and 15 South Street
Gatepiers and Railings3 listed · 3 II*
44 Newtown Street with Coach House, Out House, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings
Murray Street3 listed

Of the 157 entries, 114 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Duns’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas124
Walls, gates & bridges25
Public & civic buildings6
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1

124 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Category C

88 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 88 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bridgend, Lanark Lodge Entrance Lodge, Gatepiers and WallBridgend, Trinity Lodge with Offices and GatepiersCammo HouseCastle Street, Manse Gates and BarnCheeklaw Farmhouse and GatepiersCheeklaw HouseCurrie Street, Former South Church with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Former HallEaster Street, Wellfield House Lodge, With Gatepiers and Boundary WallFormer Duns Sheriff Court excluding flat-roofed extension adjoining to east, 8 Newtown Street, DunsNewtown Street, Police StationPost Office, 37 South StreetPreston Road Wellfield Cottage, With Boundary WallPublic Park, War MemorialThe GeansWestways, 11 Langtongate with Front Wall, Gatepiers and RailingsWillis Wynd Former Chapel1-5 (Odd Nos) North Street10 Bridgend10 Currie Street10 Market Square, Bank of Scotland11 Clouds, St Albans with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Garage11 and 13 Black Bull Street11 and 13 Murray Street11 and 13 Newtown Street, Boston House12 Murray Street with Wall13 (Dingleside) and 14 (The Elms) Clouds, With Gatepiers, Boundary Wall, Railings and Outbuildings13 Langtongate, Langton Cottage, With Gatepiers, Boundary Wall and Railings14 Langtongate15 Black Bull Street, The Black Bull Hotel15 and 17 Castle Street17 Market Square17 and 19 South Street18 Easter Street and Currie Street with Garages, Outbuildings and Boundary Wall18 Newtown Street19 Newtown Street, The Hunt19-23 (Inclusive Nos) Castle Street2 Langtongate2 Newtown Street, Horn Inn2 North Street2 and 4 Murray Street20 Newtown Street with Boundary Wall and Gate22 Bridgend with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers22 Newtown Street23 and 27 Market Square24 Langtongate24 Newtown Street, County Council Offices, And Carriage Arch26 Newtown Street with Front Walls and Fencing28 Bridgend with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers28 Langtongate with Barn and Boundary Wall28 and 28B Castle Street28 and 30 South Street and 21 North Street29 and 30 Market Square30 Newtown Street31 Castle Street32 Newtown Street33 Castle Street33 Newtown Street34 and 36 Castle Street34-38 (Even Nos) Newtown Street35 Castle Street36 Easter Street and Veterinary Surgery with Boundary Wall37 Castle Street37 Newtown Street39 Castle Street39 Newtown Street4 Clouds (Incorporating No 2 Clouds) with Boundary Wall4 Langtongate4 and 5 Golden Square4 and 6 South Street and 2 and 3 Golden Square40 and 41 Market Square41 Bridgend, Viewlaw, With Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates42 Bridgend, Fenton Lodge, With Gatepiers and Railings43 Bridgend, Mainhill, With Boundary Wall and Gatepiers43 and 45 South Street45 Castle Street47 South Street47 and 49 Castle Street56, 56A, B and C and 57 Market Square6 Market Square6 Murray Street with Barn6 Tiendhillgreen with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers6, 6A and 7 Golden Square7 Langtongate8 Currie Street8 South Street8 and 10 Murray Street9 Clouds, Woodside with Gateway, Forecourt Walls and Garage9 Murray Street with Wall
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 7.3% of Duns

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Duns 197015 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 204 ha inside the locality.

117 of the 157 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

More than half of Duns’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1994

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1994 · 1081971 · 44
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 44 entries were listed in 1971. 108 came in 1994. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 garden or designed landscape

Duns CastleGarden and designed landscape
Born here

10 notable people born in Duns before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

John Duns Scotus
Thomas Boston
James Grainger
Abraham Robertson
Robert Ainslie
Thomas M'Crie
John Black
Robert Craik
Stephen Hislop
Joseph John Blackie
13501500165018001950
John Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus1266–1308 · Priest, friar, philosopher, theologian, college teacher
Thomas Boston
Thomas Boston1676–1732 · Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher
AR
Abraham Robertson1751–1826 · British mathematician
John Black
John Black1783–1855 · British journalist and newspaper editor; (1783-1855)
Thomas M'Crie
Thomas M'Crie1772–1835 · Scottish historian, writer, and preacher; (1772-1835)
JG
James Grainger1721–1766 · British writer
Robert Ainslie
Robert Ainslie1766–1838 · Writer (1766-1838)
RC
Robert Craik1812–1867

Everyone born in Duns → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Duns

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Duns3,1171570—
Eyemouth3,698542—
In brief

Duns in brief

Duns has 157 listed buildings, including 15 Black Bull Street, The Black Bull Hotel. On Castle Street alone there are 15 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 10 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Duns Scotus (1266), Thomas Boston (1676) and Abraham Robertson (1751). The big year was 1994, when 108 of the 157 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Category A building.

Questions about Duns’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Duns?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 157 buildings inside Duns’s locality: 0 Category A, 69 Category B and 88 Category C.

Which street in Duns has the most listed buildings?

Castle Street (15), Market Square (11) and Newtown Street (9) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Duns?

1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Duns.

When were Duns’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 108, in 1994.

Who was born in Duns?

Among people born before 1900: John Duns Scotus (1266), Thomas Boston (1676), Abraham Robertson (1751), John Black (1783) and Thomas M'Crie (1772).

Duns has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.

Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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