Tolbooth House

About Tolbooth House

The building you see here dates from the early 19th century and occupies the site of an earlier Town House of a local family: Cockburn. The Rotary Club presented the clock in 1976 and there is a plaque to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Duns being granted its Burgh of Barony status by James IV in 1490. The stone that can be seen on the corner is a rubbing stone to stop horse drawn carriages from colliding with the building. In a Scottish town, the tolbooth was where market traders paid...