1 Howegate, Hawick

Earlier 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. Three 3-storey blocks forming terminus of sloping terrace, comprising shops at ground floor and tenements above. Painted ashlar to shopfronts; painted rubble with painted ashlar dressings above; rendered to rear. Regular fenestration with raised ashlar margins to front; irregular fenestration to rear.

NO 1: 3-storey, 3-bay, square-plan tenement and shop forming terminal corner of terrace, with basket-arched, roll-moulded openings to shop at ground floor. Deep base course; ground-floor cornice; eaves course; moulded eaves cornice. Narrow raised quoin strips to E and W; raised long-and-short quoins to N corner. NW (Howegate) elevation with alternate blocked and glazed openings to 5-bay shopfront. NE (Silver Street) elevation with recessed door and fanlight to centre of 3-bay shopfront to right; pend entrance to left. Shaped gable-end offset to right with single apex window, between stacks. SE (rear) elevation with square-headed pend opening; external stair; irregular fenestration.

NO 3: 3-bay section to left and taller, single-bay section to right, with full-height bowed stair tower to rear (1980s). 1st-floor band course; eaves course to left. 3-bay shopfront section to left and glazed shopfront section to right.

NO 5: 3-storey, 2-bay terraced tenement with shop set on sloping site, with single-storey gabled addition at centre of rear (1980s). Narrow raised quoin strips. Asymmetrical 3-bay shopfront with off-centre door to principal elevation, with regular fenestration above; irregular fenestration to rear.

Plate glass shop windows; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to upper storeys. Grey slate roof. Coped, harled stacks with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.