6 Howegate, Hawick

Late 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay terraced tenement and shops with architraved windows set on sloping site. Painted ashlar to shopfronts; tooled cream sandstone ashlar above, with polished ashlar dressings; harled to rear. Stepped base; ground-floor cornice; raised 1st-floor cill course; 2nd-floor cornice; eaves course. Roll-moulded, stop-chamfered window margins; bipartite mullioned windows to outer bays; bracketed cills at 2nd floor.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: E (Howegate) elevation with central shop window flanked by shopfronts with roll-moulded corners and single stone steps to deep-set, 2-leaf, half-glazed timber-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights; shoulder-arched window architraves at 1st floor; basket-arched architraves at 2nd floor; stop-chamfered architraves to pedimented windows at attic. W (rear) elevation with full-height, angled central stair tower; irregular fenestration to left and right.

Plate glass shop windows; plate glass in 20th-century timber sash-and-case windows above; predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows to rear. Broad, coped gablehead stacks with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.