7 Tower Knowe, Hawick

7 Tower Knowe in Hawick is a late 19th-century Classical tenement with an early 19th-century core. It is a three-storey building with five bays and an irregular tapered plan, situated on a steeply sloping site that features an exposed basement at the rear and shops on the ground floor. The front is finished in polished yellow sandstone ashlar, while the shopfronts are partially painted and partially tiled. The upper three storeys on the sides and rear are made of squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, and the basement is constructed from roughly coursed whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings.

The building has a base course, a deep fascia cornice that turns the southern corner, a cill course at the first floor, and a deep eaves cornice that also turns the southern corner, topped with a parapet. Rusticated quoins enhance the corners. The front features regular fenestration with raised margins on the upper floors, while the sides have irregular fenestration and the rear has a regular two-bay arrangement with raised cills. The ground floor includes a tenement door and fanlight to the left, with two shops to the right. The roof is piended, and there is basement corbelling to the polygonal stair tower on the southern side, which features a red sandstone corbel.

The shopfronts have fixed plate glass, while the other windows are predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered in grey slate with metal ridges, and there are rendered, ashlar-coped stacks with some circular buff clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a stone turnpike tenement stair with painted tongue-and-groove timber panelling up to dado height. The stair features a decorative cast-iron balustrade with a polished timber handrail leading to the second-floor landing.