5 Buccleuch Street, Hawick

Early 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 11-bay (divided 4-3-4) terraced block comprising shops to ground floor and flats above, with segmental-arched pend entrance at left, 2 rooflights to No 1, 3 canted dormers to No 3 and 2 canted dormers to No 5. Roughly squared, coursed whinstone with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings and raised margins; rendered to rear. Continuous plain corniced fascia to shopfronts; cill course to 1st floor at Nos 1 and 3; corniced, consoled fascia to shop front at No 5; eaves course and continuous moulded cornice rising above eaves across entire range. Plain pilasters flanking doorway to No 3; rusticated pilasters to ground floor of No 5.

Plate glass to shopfronts, some with vertical glazing bars. 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash-and-case windows to upper storeys. Coped, rendered gablehead stacks with circular clay cans. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods.