Hawick Museum

Hawick Museum features an early 17th century core that was enlarged by Robert Hall & Son in 1859, with alterations by James Pearson Alison in 1910 and an addition by Aitken & Turnbull in 1975. This three-storey, six-bay villa is designed in the Scots Renaissance style and has a symmetrical rectangular plan with gabled roofs. It showcases advanced pedimented central bays, large canted windows on the ground floor, and dormers with finial-pediments that break the eaves.

The exterior is constructed of coursed whinstone rubble, accented with smooth and droved sandstone dressings. It features a corniced eaves course and a central two-leaf timber-panelled front door set within a consoled, broken-pedimented architrave topped by an urn. The first-floor windows have open segmental pediments, and the central windows are adorned with squared hoodmoulds. The principal elevation includes two carved armorial plaques and two biblical plaques that replace windows on the southwest side. The northeast elevation has blind windows.

At the rear, there is a two-storey, five-bay, flat-roofed windowless extension that replaces a former service wing. This extension has a rendered upper floor built on an earlier wall and is supported by open concrete stilts over a carport to the northwest. An escape stair is located at the rear, along with a timber-clad lift shaft added in 2007.

The museum features plate glass in timber sash and case windows, wide stone skews on the pedimented gables, and a slate roof. Corniced rectangular stacks with plain clay cans and squared cast-iron rainwater goods with dated hoppers complete the exterior.

Inside, there is a large open entrance hall with a balustraded four-sided gallery and a symmetrical room layout on the ground floor. The entrance hall is finished with geometric floor tiles, and the ground floor rooms have moulded arched doorways with shell bracket details, moulded architraves, and ornate plaster cornicing. A slate chimneypiece and panelled timber shutters are also present. A curved stair with cast-iron banisters leads to the upper floor, which features a secondary stone stair, six-panel doors, and cast-iron chimneypieces. The rear upper floor includes a plain windowless Scott Gallery added in 1975.

Additionally, there is a small square-plan gate pavilion with a later rendered extension to the northeast, which is linked to a curved capped whinstone boundary wall that extends to the north.