10 Howegate, Hawick

Late 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay terraced tenement with symmetrical 5-bay shop at ground, set on sloping site. Painted ashlar to shopfront; tooled cream sandstone ashlar above, with raised polished ashlar dressings; harled to rear. Stepped base; corniced shopfront; raised, architraved lintel course forming basket-arched arcade beneath corniced eaves. Raised, moulded quoin strips. Regular fenestration to front, with architraved, roll-moulded, stop-chamfered, basket-arched margins and projecting cills; irregular fenestration to rear. Central half-glazed, timber-panelled door with fanlight to shopfront, flanked by 2 windows to right and left.

Plate glass windows to shopfront with single horizontal glazing bar to inner windows; predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Coped gablehead stacks with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.