Queens Head Public House, 32 High Street, Hawick

The Queens Head Public House, located at 32 High Street in Hawick, is a three-storey and attic, four-bay tenement building dating from the later 19th century, with a later 20th-century bank front. It forms part of a terrace and features cladding, likely concrete, at the ground floor, while the upper levels are constructed from tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. The building has a base course, first-floor cill and lintel courses with a continuous hoodmould, a second-floor continuous hoodmould, and a modillioned cornice at the eaves. Quoin strips are also present, along with stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, raised margins.

The ground floor is characterized by channelled pilasters and cladding, with a timber-panelled tenement door featuring a fanlight positioned to the right of centre, flanked by two bank entrances. To the outer right, there is a half-glazed bank front section, while the outer left has six full-height slit windows with recessed transoms. The first-floor windows are segmental-arched, and the upper storeys feature Tudor-arched windows with bracketed cills and ornamental keystones at the second floor, along with pedimented dormers that break the eaves. At the rear, there are yellow brick lean-to sheds with timber-boarded doors against an ashlar-coped rubble wall.

The bank front has fixed plate glass, while the upper floors and rear feature some four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, and twelve-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to the stair at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a metal ridge, with ashlar-coped, kneelered skews and an ashlar-coped, rendered end stack with circular buff clay cans.

Inside, there is a stone tenement stair with spiral cast-iron balusters and a polished timber handrail. The flats feature cast metal letterboxes with a bat motif on the four-panel timber doors.