23 High Street, Hawick

29 High Street in Hawick is a tenement and shops built in 1898 by James Pearson Alison, featuring an earlier wing at the rear. The building is three stories tall with an attic and has a symmetrical two-bay design. It includes bow windows that extend through the first and second floors, and pedimented dormers that break the eaves. At the rear, there is an earlier two-story, L-plan gabled block with a forestair that lines the courtyard.

The front of the building is made of polished yellow sandstone ashlar, while the rear features yellow sandstone ashlar with a polygonal yellow brick stair tower, and painted random rubble on the two-story block. Notable architectural details include a shopfront cornice, string courses at the transoms, a cornice on the first floor above the curved bays, and a deep, full-length cornice on the second floor crowning the bow windows. Quoin strips are also present.

The windows are tripartite, stone-mullioned, and transomed in the bow sections, with bipartite, stone-mullioned dormers. A central inscribed stone plaque is located between the first-floor windows. The shopfronts have fixed plate glass, while some of the timber sash-and-case windows above feature plate glass. The roof is covered with grey slate and has ashlar-coped skews, along with coped ashlar end stacks topped with buff clay cans.