Hawick Cottage Hospital And Lamp Standard, Hawick

Hawick Cottage Hospital, designed by John McLachlan between 1884 and 1885, features extensions from 1924 and the mid-20th century. The building has a linear plan with a gabled former hospital block that includes a 2-storey, 3-bay gabled section at the eastern end. To the right is a later symmetrical, 5-bay addition with canted corner bays, now connected by a later 20th-century addition. At the far western end, there is a 4-bay, flat-roofed block linked by a mid-20th-century bay. The rear has single-storey ancillary wings with pitched and piended roofs, along with some later flat-roofed extensions. The exterior is constructed from coursed, droved sandstone, featuring stugged and polished ashlar chamfered margined window openings, with some areas rendered at the rear. The base course is evident, and the gables are adorned with curved decorative bargeboards and small gablets. A canted projecting bay includes a balustraded stone balcony, and there is a hexagonal bay with a conical roof next to a 5-bay canted timber veranda.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with 6-over-2-pane glazing. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have bracketed overhanging eaves and decorative timber bargeboards. Sandstone gable and ridge stacks are corniced, and the building features cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a fully tiled former operating theatre with a granolithic floor and plain timber banisters leading to a narrow staircase.

Additionally, there is a former X-ray block to the east, which is a piended-roofed rendered pavilion with paired piended stone entrance bays on either side. This block also has a slate roof and cast-iron gutters. A cast-iron lamp standard is located on the front elevation.