4 Tower Knowe, Hawick

David Rhind, 1852, with 1935 extension. 3-storey, 5-bay, palazzo-style, piend-roofed former bank with fine Classical detailing; 3 central bays advanced, later recessed bay to outer right, basement level to left overlooking Slitrig Water. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar to principal elevations; tooled yellow sandstone ashlar and some render to rear. Base course; fascia band with dentilled cornice; floreate wallhead frieze with dentils; deep, modillioned eaves cornice. Raised, long and short quoins. Round-arched windows at ground and 1st floors with raised guilloche margins flanked by pilasters with scrolled consoles and lion-head capitals supporting dentilled cornices; shouldered architraves to 2nd-floor windows. 3 stone steps to 2-leaf, timber-panelled front door in right-hand bay of advanced central section, with semicircular decorative fanlight and flanked by columns supporting Doric entablature; 3 stone steps to 2-leaf, timber-panelled secondary door in plain architrave to outer right bay.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows to ground and 1st floors; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to 2nd floor; stained glass to ground-floor windows at rear (see NOTES). 4 corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with circular buff clay cans. Grey slate roof.

INTERIOR: Former banking hall: glazed inner door with double fanlight; herringbone-pattern parquet floor; decorative cornices; moulded architraves; some timber panelling around windows; raised N section reached through broad basket arch supported by Tuscan Doric columns on deep pedestals flanking 3 steps. Some black-and-white glazed ceramic wall tiling and large, built-in metal cabinets to basement.