12 Howegate, Hawick is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Tenement.

12 Howegate, Hawick

WRENN ID
hollow-chalk-swift
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 August 1977
Type
Tenement
OS grid reference
NT 501 143
Coordinates
55.42084, -2.78957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

12 Howegate in Hawick is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay terraced tenement that has been redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull in the late 20th century. It is set on a sloping site, featuring painted rubble at the ground floor and roughly coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressings, raised painted ashlar margins, and projecting cills on the upper storeys. The rear is harled.

The ground floor has an asymmetrical four-bay shopfront, while the upper storeys display irregularly spaced bays and irregular fenestration at the rear. To the left of the rear, there is a full-height, piend-roofed stair tower.

The shop windows are made of plate glass, and the upper floors predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows, while the rear has predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a coped, rendered gablehead stack with circular clay cans. The building also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

12 Howegate, Hawick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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