6 Howegate, Hawick

6 Howegate in Hawick is a late 19th-century, three-storey and attic, three-bay terraced tenement and shops, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull in the late 20th century. It is situated on a sloping site and features painted ashlar shopfronts, with tooled cream sandstone ashlar above and polished ashlar dressings, while the rear is harled. The building has a stepped base, a cornice at the ground floor, a raised cill course at the first floor, a cornice at the second floor, and an eaves course. The windows have roll-moulded, stop-chamfered margins, with bipartite mullioned windows in the outer bays and bracketed cills at the second floor.

The east elevation facing Howegate includes a central shop window flanked by shopfronts that have roll-moulded corners and single stone steps leading to deep-set, two-leaf, half-glazed timber-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights. The first-floor windows feature shoulder-arched architraves, while the second-floor windows have basket-arched architraves. The attic windows are pedimented with stop-chamfered architraves. The west elevation at the rear has a full-height, angled central stair tower and irregular fenestration on both sides.

The shop windows are made of plate glass, and the upper floors have plate glass in 20th-century timber sash-and-case windows, with predominantly four-pane glazing in the timber sash-and-case windows at the rear. The building has broad, coped gablehead stacks with circular clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.