Scottish Enterprise Borders ( Former Maxwell Hotel), Bridge Street

Later 19th century with possible earlier fabric; later extensions to rear. 4-storey with upper breaking eaves, 7-bay (arranged 3-1-3), symmetrical rectangular-plan former hotel in French Classical style. (now converted to offices, 2006). Central bay with later widened glazed doorway rising to piended platform-roofed tower with cast-iron brattishing and French oculus dormer. Corniced and pilastered doorpieces to flanking sections, tripartite windows flanking doorways. Corniced and dentilled fascia at 2nd floor. Plain gabled dormers breaking stone ballustraded eaves, ball finialled dies to skew-ends. Narrow coursed rubble; render to SE and SW; painted stone dressings, quoins and rybats; render to SE and SW. Stop-chamfered door surrounds.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows; Plate glass in timber sash and case tripartite windows. 20th century glazed metal doors; pitched slate roofs; large corniced gable end stacks. Square-section cast-iron gutters collecting between dormers; cast-iron downpipes recessed behind facia.

INTERIOR: remodelled to form office spaces throughout. Carved timber staircase to all floors with ornamental ram's head corbels; cornicing to 1st floor principal rooms.