1 Howegate, Hawick

1 Howegate in Hawick is an earlier 19th-century building that was redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull in the late 20th century. It consists of three 3-storey blocks that form the end of a sloping terrace, featuring shops on the ground floor and tenements above. The shopfronts are made of painted ashlar, while the upper sections are constructed of painted rubble with painted ashlar dressings. The rear of the building is rendered. The front has regular window arrangements with raised ashlar margins, while the rear displays irregular fenestration.

The first block, No. 1, is a 3-storey, 3-bay tenement and shop that serves as the terminal corner of the terrace. It has basket-arched, roll-moulded openings for the shop on the ground floor, along with a deep base course, a cornice at the ground floor, and an eaves course with a moulded eaves cornice. Narrow raised quoin strips are present on the east and west sides, while the north corner features raised long-and-short quoins. The northwest elevation, facing Howegate, has a shopfront with alternating blocked and glazed openings across five bays. The northeast elevation, facing Silver Street, includes a recessed door with a fanlight at the center of a 3-bay shopfront to the right, and a pend entrance to the left. The shaped gable-end is offset to the right and has a single apex window situated between stacks. The southeast elevation has a square-headed pend opening, an external stair, and irregular fenestration.

No. 3 consists of a 3-bay section on the left and a taller, single-bay section on the right, which features a full-height bowed stair tower added in the 1980s. It has a band course at the first floor and an eaves course on the left. The left section has a 3-bay shopfront, while the right section features a glazed shopfront.

No. 5 is a 3-storey, 2-bay terraced tenement with a shop, set on a sloping site. It includes a single-storey gabled addition at the center of the rear, added in the 1980s. The building has narrow raised quoin strips and an asymmetrical 3-bay shopfront with an off-center door on the main elevation, along with regular fenestration above and irregular fenestration at the rear.

The shop windows are made of plate glass, while the upper storeys predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coped, harled stacks with circular buff clay cans. The building also has cast-iron rainwater goods.