29 High Street, Hawick

James Pearson Alison, 1898, with earlier wing to rear. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay, symmetrical tenement and shops forming part of terrace, with bow windows running through 1st and 2nd floors, pedimented dormers breaking eaves, and earlier 2-storey, L-plan, gabled block with forestair lining courtyard to rear. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar to front; yellow sandstone ashlar with polygonal yellow brick stair tower to rear; painted random rubble to rear 2-storey block. Shopfront cornice; string courses to transoms; 1st-floor cornice to curved bays; deep, full-length, 2nd-floor cornice crowning bow windows; moulded eaves course. Quoin strips. Tripartite, stone-mullioned and transomed windows to bows; bipartite, stone-mullioned dormers. Central inscribed stone plaque (see NOTES) between 1st-floor windows.

Fixed plate glass to shopfronts; plate glass in some timber sash-and-case windows above. Grey slate ridge roof; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar end stacks with buff clay cans.