Trustee Savings Bank, 11 High Street, Hawick

James Pearson Alison, 1914. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay, Renaissance palazzo-style bank forming part of terrace, with channelled ground floor, deep entablature and recessed attic storey. Yellow sandstone ashlar to front; squared yellow sandstone with some polished ashlar and brick dressings to rear. Base course; corniced fascia; deep eaves frieze and deep dentilled cornice. Round-arched openings at ground floor; rectangular openings elsewhere.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf, 6-panel timber doors with sunburst fanlights to outer bays at ground floor, the left with raised, stepped keystone; single horizontal glazing bar at springing point in 3 central windows. 1st-floor windows with projecting, bracketed cills, blocked architraves, and alternating pediments and entablatures -segmental-arched at centre, triangular at left and right, and flat in between. 2nd-floor windows with lugged architraves.

Fixed plate glass at ground floor; plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows above; predominantly multi-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows to rear. Grey Scottish slate roof. Corniced ashlar gablehead stack with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Ground-floor banking hall with decorative plasterwork now hidden by false ceiling. Timber-panelled entrance lobby through left door in principal elevation, leading to stone stair to upper floors. Predominantly 6-panel timber doors in fluted architraves throughout upper storeys; some cornices and picture rails; some timber-panelled window surrounds; some timber chimneypieces at 2nd floor and cast-iron chimneypieces in attic. Serving bell indicator box above door in kitchen at 2nd floor. U-shaped timber staircase with turned timber balusters and square newels from 2nd floor to attic.