16 Buccleuch Street, Hawick

Circa 1820. 3-storey and basement terraced block comprising 3-bay former inn with central pend and outbuildings to rear, and two 2-bay houses. Roughly squared, coursed whinstone, rendered to rear, with droved, painted ashlar dressings. Continuous moulded eaves cornice. Rusticated quoins. Tabbed margins.

NO 16: Former Grapes Inn, converted to flats. Central depressed arch with rusticated long and short quoins and voussoirs to principal elevation leading to pend with doors in left and right walls. Detached, parallel block at rear of courtyard with circular stair tower with stone steps to basement-level entrance at front and stone steps to raised entrance platform at side. Polygonal stair tower to 3-storey left section; cast-iron balustrades with fleur-de-lys finials to 1st- and 2nd-floor cantilevered walkways to 3-storey outer left section extending behind Nos 18 and 20. Some timber-boarded doors. INTERIOR: stone stairs. Some timber-panelled doors.

NOS 18 AND 20: Identical houses, each with 4 stone steps to recessed, timber-panelled door with fanlight in round-arched, hollow-chamfered, key-blocked, roll-moulded architrave with raised outer quoins and voussoirs.

Some 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows. Ashlar-coped skews. Ashlar-coped ridge stacks with circular clay cans. Some cast-iron rainwater goods.