Crown Hotel, 20-22 High Street, Hawick

Mid and later 19th century. Former hotel comprising 4-storey and attic, 2-bay section to left (No 22) with shallow canted windows and slightly later 3-storey and attic, 2-bay section to right (No 20) with large tripartite windows, forming part of terrace. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar. Base course; continuous ground-floor cornice; 1st-floor cornice and string course to No 22 only; continuous 2nd-floor cornice forming eaves cornice to No 20; eaves cornice to No 22; blocking course. Rusticated quoins.

NO 20: 5-bay ground floor with 3 large windows to left, doorway to right, and pend to outer right. 2 symmetrically placed, tripartite, stone-mullioned windows in corniced architraves at 1st and 2nd floors. Eaves course. 2 timber-gabled dormers.

NO 22: French Renaissance style. 4-leaf, timber-panelled door to left with suspended, glazed canopy; large window with 2 turned glazing bars and single horizontal glazing bar to right, both with scrolled spandrels, flanked by half-fluted Corinthian pilasters supporting plain frieze. 2 slightly recessed, continuous, canted windows with stop-chamfered margins at 1st and 2nd floors, flanked by plain pilasters. Plain pilasters and entablature at 3rd floor. Central bipartite, stone-mullioned wallhead dormer with flanking consoles and swan-neck pediment; urn finials to stepped-back corners. Mansard roof with brattishing.

Plate glass to ground floor; predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped stacks with short, circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Mosaic-tiled floor to lobby of No 22 (see NOTES), leading through to timber stair with turned timber balustrade, polished timber handrail and rooflight.