1-5 Roxburgh Street, Galashiels

J and J Hall, dated 1888. 3-storey and attic; 5 bays to Roxburgh street and 7 bays to High Street; L-plan former department store, now in commercial and residential use; French Renaissance detailing, prominent 4-stage polygonal corner tower with bell-cast roof, corbelled over ground floor. 4-stage square tower to south end of High Street elevation with prominent pedimented Ionic doorpiece and 2nd floor canted oriel window. Squared buff sandstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Ground floor shopfronts. First floor band course, eaves band course, blocking course to corner bays. Segmental-headed bipartite and tripartite windows with moulded surrounds. Cast iron fronted circular lucerne dormers and segmental-headed dormers. Bays to High Street and some to Roxburgh Street divided by full-height pilasters.

NORTHEAST (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: regular vertical divisions with irregularly disposed bipartite, tripartite and single windows.

NORTHWEST (ROXBURGH STREET) ELEVATION: as NE elevation, but symmetrical, with slightly advanced end bays. Central pend with wrought iron gates.

Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs Prominent wide wallhead stack to south.

INTERIOR: access to the interior was not gained during the course of the survey (2005). However, it is understood that the main stair has decorative tiling.