43 North Bridge Street, Hawick

43 North Bridge Street in Hawick is a building designed by James Pearson Alison in 1902. It is a three-storey structure with an attic, featuring a symmetrical, gabled design that includes commercial space on the ground floor and residential accommodation above. The building showcases Dutch-inspired Arts and Crafts detailing, constructed from stugged, squared, coursed red sandstone with polished ashlar dressings.

The ground floor has a deep cornice and chamfered window margins. A central two-storey projection includes a shop window at the ground level, a stone-mullioned bipartite window on the first floor, and a curved parapet. Access is provided by stone steps leading to timber-boarded, half-glazed doors, which feature small-pane glass on the left and oval glass on the right, all set within stop-chamfered, moulded surrounds. The outer bays have depressed-arched multi-pane fanlights, labeled 'STUDIO' on the left and 'HOUSE' on the right. The second floor has two tripartite, stone-mullioned windows, while an arrowslit attic window is located in the apex of the gable.

The ground-floor display window has fixed-pane glazing, and the first-floor windows are made of plate glass in timber sash and case frames, although the upper floors have non-traditional uPVC windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features metal ridges, ashlar-coped skews, and corniced ridge stacks with circular red clay cans. Decorative cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

Inside, the ground floor features four slender metal columns that support the roof of the former photographic studio at the rear. There are some two-panel timber doors on the ground floor, and the lobby of the 'House' has polychrome ceramic floor tiles arranged in a geometric pattern. A timber stair leads to the first floor, which includes some decorative cornices and a servants' bell indicator. The upper storeys are accessed by a timber stair with square timber balusters, fretted slats, square newels, and a polished timber handrail. The second floor has a small cast-iron chimneypiece.