12 Howegate, Hawick

Earlier 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay terraced tenement with shop set on sloping site. Painted rubble at ground floor; roughly coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings, raised, painted ashlar margins and projecting cills to upper storeys; harled to rear. Asymmetrical 4-bay shopfront at ground floor; irregularly spaced bays above; irregular fenestration to rear. Full-height, piend-roofed stair tower to left of rear.

Plate glass shop windows; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows above; predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows to rear. Grey slate roof. Coped, rendered gablehead stack with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.