83 High Street, Hawick

Circa 1878. 3-storey and attic pair of matching 4-bay tenements with 3 shops (originally 4) at ground floor, forming part of terrace, with shoulder-arched windows and dormers to attic. Painted ashlar to shopfronts; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with raised, polished ashlar dressings above; roughly squared yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and raised cills to rear. Plain stall risers; plain shopfront fascias, with cornices surviving at Nos 81 and 85; cill course and continuous hoodmoulds at 1st floor; eaves course connecting 2nd-floor lintels and rising to corbelled cornice, broken beneath dormers at No 85 by raised sections with roundels; blocking course at Nos 81-83. Quoin strips. Stop-chamfered margins. Shouldered window architraves at 1st floor; basket-arched margins and corbelled cills at 2nd floor. Timber-panelled front doors; corbelled canopy above tenement door of No 81; vertical and horizontal glazing bars to shopfront at No 81. 4 single-light, flat-roofed wallhead dormers at Nos 81-83, 2 bipartite, flat-roofed wallhead dormers at No 85. Mansard roof.

Fixed plate glass to shopfronts (curved to corner windows of No 81); predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof; ashlar-coped skews; corniced ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Stone stairs to closes at lower levels; timber stairs at top storeys; decorative cast-iron balustrades with polished timber handrails throughout. Predominantly 4-panel timber doors to flats.