Crown Hotel, 20-22 High Street, Hawick

The Crown Hotel, located at 20-22 High Street in Hawick, is a former hotel built in the mid to later 19th century. It consists of a four-storey and attic section on the left (No 22) with shallow canted windows, and a slightly later three-storey and attic section on the right (No 20) featuring large tripartite windows. The building is part of a terrace and is constructed from polished yellow sandstone ashlar. It has a base course, a continuous ground-floor cornice, a first-floor cornice and string course specifically for No 22, a continuous second-floor cornice that forms the eaves cornice for No 20, an eaves cornice for No 22, and a blocking course. The corners are accentuated with rusticated quoins.

For No 20, the ground floor has five bays with three large windows on the left, a doorway on the right, and a pend at the outer right. The first and second floors feature two symmetrically placed tripartite stone-mullioned windows within corniced architraves, along with an eaves course and two timber-gabled dormers.

No 22 showcases a French Renaissance style with a four-leaf timber-panelled door on the left, accompanied by a suspended glazed canopy. To the right is a large window with two turned glazing bars and a single horizontal glazing bar, both adorned with scrolled spandrels and flanked by half-fluted Corinthian pilasters that support a plain frieze. The first and second floors have two slightly recessed, continuous canted windows with stop-chamfered margins, flanked by plain pilasters. The third floor features plain pilasters and an entablature. At the roof level, there is a central bipartite stone-mullioned wallhead dormer with flanking consoles and a swan-neck pediment, topped with urn finials at the stepped-back corners. The building has a mansard roof with brattishing, a grey slate covering, and ashlar-coped stacks with short circular buff clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside No 22, the lobby features a mosaic-tiled floor that leads to a timber stair with a turned timber balustrade and a polished timber handrail, illuminated by a rooflight.