Henderson Shelter

GATE LODGE: mid-19th century. Single-storey and attic, irregular-plan, picturesque gate lodge with deep bracketed eaves and T-braced, finialled gables. Roughly squared, snecked rubble with droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course. Some long and short quoins; some dimpled rusticated quoins. Tabbed, polished ashlar window margins with projecting cills. 3-bay principal (Avenue) elevation with non-traditional door in plain architrave at centre; bowed right bay with gatepier attached to centre, corbelled out to attic gable; left bay with tripartite, stone-mullioned window and 3-light, flat-roofed dormer. Side (Roadhead) elevation with tripartite window at ground and attic window above. Irregular fenestration to rear.

Non-traditional small-pane timber windows. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Coped, rendered stack with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

GATEPIERS: Mid-19th century. 4 square-plan, corniced gatepiers, the inner piers supporting obelisks resting on corner balls, the northernmost outer one attached to bow of gate lodge. Yellow sandstone ashlar with dimpled rusticated quoins.

WAR MEMORIAL: James B Dunn, 1921. 6.5m stone cenotaph with wide approach steps and plinth supporting bronze statue of 'Spirit of Youth Triumphing over Evil' by Alexander Leslie. Flanking bronze double lanterns.

BOER WAR MEMORIAL: J N Scott & A Lorne Campbell; statue by William Birnie Rhind (see NOTES). Large, distinctive, stone war memorial with battered pedestal with banded rustication to corners, surmounted by statue of standing soldier in battle dress holding rifle. Square-plan plinth; concave chamfered base; pedestal with inscription plaques to each face and decorative curvilinear and floral carving to upper stage.

FOUNTAIN: 1896. McDowell, Steven & Co, Milton Ironworks, Glasgow. Silver-painted, cast-iron, 2-tiered fountain set in 3-stepped circular basin. Decorative lower pedestal with putti, dolphins and turtle water spouts; fluted shallow basin above. Further, smaller, decorative pedestal above, surmounted by shallow basin. Otter figure with fish in mouth at apex. Plaque to top tier of basin engraved with 'THIS FOUNTAIN WAS BEQUEATHED TO THE BURGH BY GILBERT DAVIDSON ESQ. BANKER IN HAWICK 1896'.

MACNEE DRINKING FOUNTAIN: 1906. Ornamental, grey granite, square-plan memorial drinking fountain. Deep plinth with centrally placed oval column with inscription (see NOTES) surrounded by 4 smaller corner columns. Surmounted by coping stone with small dome above and finial to apex. Metal drinking bowl and spout with granite water bowl beneath to N side.

HENDERSON SHELTER: 1930. Rectangular-plan, open-frame, timber seating shelter with shallow piended roof with swept eaves and with decorative ridge with scrolled finials. Tongue and groove boarding to lower sections with integral timber benches.