2 Howegate, Hawick

Earlier 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay terraced tenement with pilastered shopfront at ground floor, set on sloping site. Painted ashlar to shopfront; squared, snecked whinstone to upper storeys, with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings; harled to rear. Deep base course; corniced shopfront with fascia; eaves course. Raised quoin strips. Regular fenestration to front, with raised ashlar margins and projecting cills; irregular fenestration to rear. Deeply recessed door with large flanking windows to shopfront, with blind opening to outer left.

Plate glass shop windows; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Coped, rendered stack with circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.