2 Tower Knowe, Hawick is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 August 1977. Tenement.
2 Tower Knowe, Hawick
- WRENN ID
- lesser-pillar-sunrise
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1977
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NT 502 144
- Coordinates
- 55.42127, -2.78822
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Tower Knowe in Hawick is a Classical corner tenement built between the earlier and mid 19th century. It is a four-storey, three-bay structure with a piend roof and features a shop on the ground floor. The principal elevation is finished in smooth render with moulded margins, while the side elevation is made of painted rubble with painted polished ashlar margins. The building has raised long and short quoins and regular fenestration, with corniced margins and raised cills on the first and second floors. The east side elevation has a tenement door with a fanlight to the left and consists of two bays.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has metal ridges, along with a painted, ashlar-coped stack that includes circular buff clay cans. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
2 Tower Knowe, Hawick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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