7 Tower Knowe, Hawick

Late 19th century with early-19th-century core. 3-storey, 5-bay, irregular tapered-plan, Classical tenement on a steeply sloping site with exposed basement to rear and shops at ground floor. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar to front, partially painted and partially tiled to shopfronts; squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to upper 3 storeys at sides and rear; roughly coursed whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings to basement. Base course; deep fascia cornice turning S corner; 1st-floor cill course; deep eaves cornice turning S corner; parapet. Rusticated quoins. Regular fenestration to front, with raised margins at upper floors; irregular fenestration to sides and regular, 2-bay fenestration to rear, with raised cills. Tenement door and fanlight to left and 2 shops to right at ground floor. piended roof, and basement corbelling to polygonal stair tower at S side. Red sandstone corbel to stair tower.

Fixed plate glass to shopfronts; predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof with metal ridges; rendered, ashlar-coped stacks with some circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Stone turnpike tenement stair with painted tongue-and-groove timber panelling to dado height and decorative cast-iron balustrade with polished timber handrail to 2nd-floor landing.