Queens Head Public House, 32 High Street, Hawick

Later 19th century, with later 20th century bank front. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay tenement with bank at ground floor, forming part of terrace. Cladding (probably concrete) at ground floor; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings above. Base course; 1st-floor cill and lintel courses and continuous hoodmould; 2nd-floor continuous hoodmould and modillioned cornice; eaves course. Quoin strips. Stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, raised margins.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Channelled pilasters and cladding to ground floor; timber-panelled tenement door with fanlight to right of centre flanked by 2 bank entrances; half-glazed bank front section to outer right; 6 full-height slit windows with recessed transoms to outer left. Segmental-arched windows at 1st floor; Tudor-arched windows to upper storeys, with bracketed cills and ornamental keystones at 2nd floor and pedimented dormers breaking eaves. Yellow brick lean-to sheds with timber-boarded doors against ashlar-coped rubble wall to rear.

Fixed plate glass to bank; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above and to rear; 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to stair at rear. Grey slate roof with metal ridge; ashlar-coped, kneelered skews; ashlar-coped, rendered end stack with circular buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Stone tenement stair with spiral cast-iron balusters and polished timber handrail; cast metal letterboxes with bat motif to 4-panel timber doors to flats.