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Summary

Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical, traditional tenement and shop forming part of terrace, with timber shopfront and 2 canted dormers. Painted whinstone rubble with painted, droved ashlar dressings and painted, polished margins to front; rendered with raised, painted margins to rear. Plain, shallow stall riser; eaves course. Rusticated quoins. Recessed, glazed door to left and pierced timberwork to upper corners of shopfront, timber door with rectangular fanlight to pend at right, and 2 canted dormers. Circular stair tower and adjoining single-storey sheds to rear.

Plate glass shop windows; 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above and to rear; fixed multi-pane glazing to rear stair tower. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Ashlar-coped brick end stack to S. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Stone turnpike stair with tongue-and-groove panelling to dado height in stair tower to rear.

Statement of Special Interest

B-Group comprises Nos 4, 6, 8 and 10 High Street - see separate list entries (previously listed together). The grouping reflects the streetscape interest of this run of buildings.

A well-proportioned, traditional, early-19th-century block situated at the heart of Hawick's High Street and making a strong contribution to the streetscape. The building retains its original proportions, and had acquired its current rear form by the time of the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1857 which shows both the stair tower and the rear sheds. The style of the shopfront details suggests that it dates from the earlier 20th century; an archive photograph from around the 1920s (on the front cover of Old Hawick (2004

indicates that at that time it had a more symmetrical form as well as a fascia and cornice. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

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