Old Parish Church, Buccleuch Street, Hawick

This is an 1885-6 Romanesque-style church hall, designed by Michael Brodie, located on Buccleuch Street, Hawick. It is arranged in a T-shape and features gabled elevations with pinnacled angle buttresses, round-arched windows, and incorporates a former caretaker’s flat to the south. The exterior is constructed from roughly coursed whinstone, with polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. A base course runs along the front of the north and parts of the side elevations, and a corbelled eaves course is present on the front sections of the side elevations. The majority of openings are round-arched, with chamfered window margins; rectangular windows are found on the regularly fenestrated rear (south) elevation and on the irregularly fenestrated gable of the west elevation.

The principal north elevation features a central two-leaf timber-boarded door within a round-arched doorway, set within a slightly advanced, coped surround flanked by gabletted buttresses. Single windows are positioned on either side of the doorway, above which is a tripartite stone-mullioned triple-arched window and an oculus in the gable. The east elevation has evenly spaced windows and buttresses to the front section, with a tripartite stone-mullioned window flanked by single windows to the advanced gable to the rear, and an oculus in the gable. The south elevation has four windows at ground floor and two at the first floor; stone steps lead to a modern door with a two-pane fanlight to the outer left. The west elevation is similar to the east elevation, with three windows at ground floor and one at the first floor to the advanced rear gable, which has curved skewputts, and a plain railing surrounds stone steps leading to the cellar. A single-storey, flat-roofed 20th-century entrance extension is located at the re-entrant angle of the west gable, featuring a timber-boarded door.

The windows predominantly have geometric-patterned leaded glass, while timber sash and case windows elsewhere have a four-pane glazing pattern. Ashlar copes are present. A sandstone ashlar gablehead stack with circular buff clay cans is located at the rear (south) elevation. The roof is covered in Welsh slate with metal ridges. Most of the rainwater goods are made from cast iron.

Inside, the main hall features a north gallery with a turned timber balustrade, timber dado panelling, cornices, and two decorative cast-iron ceiling ventilation grilles. A single-storey hall is located towards the rear, featuring tripartite mullioned windows overlooking a central corridor, a part-glazed timber-panelled folding partition, and timber dado panelling. A kitchen is situated between the halls, and has timber serving hatches to each. Predominantly four-panel timber doors with chamfered detailing are found throughout, although some are concealed by later panelling.