19 Howegate, Hawick

Early to earlier 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay, end-terrace tenement with 2 shops, set on sloping site, with full-height bowed stair tower to rear (1980s). Roughly squared rubble, painted to ground floor, with painted ashlar dressings; rendered to side and rear. Ground-floor cornice; band course dividing 1st and 2nd floors. Raised long-and-short quoins to SW corner. 5-bay shopfront with one blind doorway and 2 doors with rectangular fanlights to centre; regular fenestration with raised ashlar margins and projecting cills above; irregular fenestration elsewhere.

Plate glass windows to shops; predominantly 4-pane glazing in sash and case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Coped, rendered gablehead stack with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.