Hawick Museum

Early 17th century core, enlarged Robert Hall & Son and dated 1859; James Pearson Alison, alterations 1910; Aitken & Turnbull, addition 1975. 3-storey, 6-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan, gabled, Scots Renaissance style villa with advanced pedimented central bays, large canted ground-floor windows and finial-pedimented eaves-breaking dormers. Coursed whinstone rubble with smooth and droved sandstone dressings. Corniced eaves course. Central 2-leaf timber-panelled front door in consoled, broken-pedimented architrave with urn in pediment; open segmental pediments to first-floor windows; squared hoodmoulds to central windows. 2 carved armorial plaques to centre of principal elevation and 2 biblical plaques replacing windows to SW. Blind windows to NE elevation. 2-storey, 5-bay, flat-roofed windowless extension extending to rear on site of former service wing; rendered upper floor on earlier wall, and open concrete stilts over carport below to NW. Escape stair to rear. Timber-clad lift shaft to rear (2007).

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. 2 Wide stone skews to pedimented gables. Slate roof. Corniced rectangular stacks with plain clay cans. Squared cast-iron rainwater goods with dated hoppers.

INTERIOR: Large open entrance hall with balustraded four-sided gallery; symmetrical room layout to ground floor. Geometric floor tiles to entrance hall. Moulded arched doorways with shell bracket details; moulded architraves; ornate plaster cornicing to ground floor rooms. Slate chimneypiece; panelled timber shutters. Curved stair with cast-iron banisters. Secondary stone stair to upper-floor rooms; 6-panel doors and cast-iron chimneypieces. Plain windowless 1975 Scott Gallery to rear upper floor.

TOILET BLOCK AND BOUNDARY WALL: Small square-plan gate pavilion with later rendered extension to NE linked to curved capped whinstone wall extending to N.