Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

1 SANDBEDLB34666

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
19/08/1977
Supplementary Information Updated
18/11/2008
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Burgh
Hawick
NGR
NT 50129 14441
Coordinates
350129, 614441

Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey corner tenement with shop at ground floor, piended roof to corner and recessed corner door. Coursed whinstone with rendered shopfront and raised red sandstone dressings and quoins. 3-bay principal elevation with window and tenement door flanked by large 3-pane display windows to plain shopfront at ground floor; single central window flanked by tripartite mullioned windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Single-bay side elevation to Howegate with large 2-pane display window to shopfront at ground floor.

Plate glass to shopfront; 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper floors. Coped, rendered ridge stack with circular clay cans. Grey slate roof with metal ridge.

Statement of Special Interest

A well-proportioned, virtually unaltered early-19th-century residential and commercial block situated in a prominent position at the centre of Hawick, at the corner of Sandbed and Howegate.

Sandbed was the focal point of the Burgh and the site of its marketplace until 1815, when the market was moved to Tower Knowe in preparation for the laying-out of Buccleuch Street as the main road south.

Prior to the First World War the shop at No 1 belonged to Hawick-born Alexander Sutherland Lawson -watchmaker, jeweller, silversmith, optician, shipping agent, magistrate and JP - who had commenced his business in May 1864. When he died in October 1916, he and his wife Catherine were living above the shop. It is now (2007) a clothing and accessories store, Seasons Accessories.

There are no remaining original features in the shop interior. The interiors of the flats above were not seen at resurvey (2008), but are understood to have been modernised. List description revised and category changed from B to C(S) following resurvey (2008).

References

Bibliography

Shown on John Wood's Plan of the Town and Environs of Hawick (1824). Shown on Ordnance Survey Town Plan (1857). Charles Alexander Strang, Borders and Berwick (RIAS, 1994), p140. R E Scott, Companion to Hawick and District, 3rd Edition (1998), p41. Alex F Young, Old Hawick (2004), pp30-1. Kitty Cruft, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett, The Buildings of Scotland: Borders (2006), p353.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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