Bank Of Scotland, 7 High Street, Hawick

David Cousin, 1863. 3-storey, 5-bay (grouped 1-3-1), palazzo-style bank forming part of terrace, with round-arched, keystoned openings at ground floor, full-length balcony at 1st floor, rectangular openings to upper floors and consoled entablature. Smooth-painted ashlar at ground floor; yellow sandstone ashlar above; squared, coursed yellow sandstone to rear. Ground-floor cornice; band courses above 1st and 2nd floors; modillioned eaves cornice; deep recessed blocking course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Ground floor with Corinthian pilasters to central 3-window arcade; outer timber-panelled doors (2-leaf to left, single-leaf to right) with fanlights flanked by plain pilasters supporting consoles (see NOTES). Pierced, scrolled detailing to 1st-floor consoled balcony; architraved 1st-floor windows with consoled cornices overlaying partial entablatures. 2nd floor with deeply recessed windows flanked by inset plain quarter-pilasters.

Fixed plate glass at ground floor; 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows above. Grey slate roof; coped yellow sandstone ashlar gablehead stacks with circular buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Ground-floor banking hall with 2 fluted cast-iron columns supporting joists; decorative plasterwork to compartmented ceiling including dentilled and egg-and-dart cornice; some consoled corbels. Some timber-panelled shutters at 1st floor.