Bank Of Scotland, 7 High Street, Hawick

The Bank of Scotland at 7 High Street in Hawick is a palazzo-style bank building designed by David Cousin in 1863. It is three stories tall and has five bays arranged in a 1-3-1 grouping. The ground floor features round-arched openings with keystones, while the first floor has a full-length balcony. The upper floors have rectangular openings and a consoled entablature. The ground floor is finished in smooth-painted ashlar, with yellow sandstone ashlar above, and squared, coursed yellow sandstone at the rear. There is a cornice at the ground floor, band courses above the first and second floors, a modillioned eaves cornice, and a deep recessed blocking course.

The ground floor includes Corinthian pilasters framing a central three-window arcade, with outer timber-panelled doors—two-leaf on the left and single-leaf on the right—accompanied by fanlights and plain pilasters that support consoles. The first-floor balcony features pierced, scrolled detailing, while the first-floor windows are architraved with consoled cornices over partial entablatures. The second floor has deeply recessed windows flanked by inset plain quarter-pilasters.

The ground floor has fixed plate glass, and the upper floors are fitted with timber sash-and-case windows with four-pane glazing. The roof is made of grey slate, with coped yellow sandstone ashlar gablehead stacks topped with circular buff clay cans.

Inside, the ground-floor banking hall is supported by two fluted cast-iron columns that hold up the joists. The ceiling features decorative plasterwork, including a compartmented design with dentilled and egg-and-dart cornices, along with some consoled corbels. There are also some timber-panelled shutters on the first floor.