12 High Street, Hawick

John Dick Peddie, dated 1857. 3-storey, 5-bay, square-plan, piend-roofed, Classical Palazzo, former bank forming part of terrace, with round-arched windows, consoled canopies to entrances and deep stone-bracketed eaves. Pale grey sandstone ashlar, with black slate cladding (see NOTES) to base and to ground-floor plinths; rendered to rear. Base course; floreate frieze below corniced 1st-floor cill course; Greek key frieze below corniced 2nd-floor cill course; stone-bracketed eaves cornice with rosettes. Rusticated quoins; broad pilasters dividing 1st-floor bays. Round-arched openings at ground and 1st floors; basket-arched windows at 2nd floor; corniced margins to all windows. 3 slate steps to 2-leaf, 8-panel timber doors with fanlights in consoled, corniced architraves to outer bays.

Fixed glazing with 'fan'-pattern timber glazing bars to ground floor; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear. Long, corniced ashlar end stacks with short, circular, buff clay cans. Grey slate roof with metal ridge.

INTERIOR: Some timber-panelled shutters.