St Mary's Parish Church Hall, Sandbed, Hawick

1874 with later alterations. 2-storey and basement, square-plan, gabled, gothic former church with advanced central asymmetrical gabled entrance and offset tower to principal (E) elevation. Corner-sited with N elevation to Teviot River and main elevation joined to parapet wall of Albert Bridge. Coursed bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Moulded string course; dentilled eaves course. Shallow corner buttresses. Irregular fenestration of predominantly pointed arch windows with tabbed and chamfered margins and hoodmoulds; small rose windows to gable apexes. Pointed-arched hoodmoulded entrance doorway with two-light tracery window and paired round-arched louvred belfry openings to tower. 6-bay gabled elevation to N rising from riverbed with segmental-arched windows at basement and tall pointed-arched windows above. Later alterations to window layouts to form upper flat. Arched walkway leading to river under steps of entrance porch with door to lower halls. Later doorway to right of entrance leading to upper flat.

Fixed glazing to principal windows; timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Slate roof; fishtail slates to tower. Stone skews with beaked skewputts. Gable stacks with octagonal clay cans. Squared cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative brackets.

INTERIOR: Halls to basement with stone flag floors, timber panelling to shoulder height and plain chimneypieces. 4-panel timber doors with chamfered detailing. Cast-iron columns. Large stone pointed arch over entrance steps to upper floor. Suspended ceiling to gallery level.