Bowanhill Cottage, Bowanhill

Henderson's Knowe, dating from the early 19th century, is a single-storey former smithy accompanied by two flanking single-storey and attic cottages, each featuring a gablet dormerhead. The overall height of the building was raised around 1870. It is constructed from whinstone rubble with contrasting yellow sandstone, featuring long and short dressings. The ground floor has bipartite windows with stone mullions. The building is situated alongside the A7 between Hawick and Langholm.

The northeast cottage is three bays wide and may have originally served as stabling with a loft. There is a later extension at the rear. The former smithy has an enlarged entrance opening with a replacement door and a bipartite lattice-glazed window. A small brass plaque, added in 2003, commemorates Tom Jenkins, who taught at the smithy from 1814 to 1818. The southwest cottage is four asymmetrical bays wide and has tooled quoins, with an enlarged window opening in the gablehead.

Inside the former smithy, which is currently used as a retail space, the large raised traditional smithy hearth, curved alcoves in the outer wall (originally for bellows), and two presses remain. There is a bench below the front window, studded with nail-heads, and the smithy features a replacement timber floor.

The windows are a mix of traditional-style timber in sash and case frames and uPVC, with various glazing patterns. Some windows were made bipartite around 1950, and later windows have been added in the gable ends. The roof is slated, featuring five rooflights of various dates and three ridge chimneystacks. The gable ends have plain bargeboards and carved, projecting purlin ends.

In front of the building, there is a cobbled area with a large mill-stone converted to a wheel jig and a stone anvil base set into the cobbles.