Trustee Savings Bank, 11 High Street, Hawick

The Trustee Savings Bank, located at 11 High Street in Hawick, was designed by James Pearson Alison in 1914. This three-storey and attic building features a five-bay facade in a Renaissance palazzo style and is part of a terrace. The ground floor is channelled, while the front is finished in yellow sandstone ashlar, and the rear is constructed from squared yellow sandstone with some polished ashlar and brick dressings. The design includes a base course, a corniced fascia, a deep eaves frieze, and a deep dentilled cornice. The ground floor has round-arched openings, while the upper floors feature rectangular openings.

Notable features include two-leaf, six-panel timber doors with sunburst fanlights in the outer bays of the ground floor, with the left door showcasing a raised, stepped keystone. The three central windows have a single horizontal glazing bar at the springing point. The first-floor windows have projecting, bracketed cills, blocked architraves, and alternating pediments and entablatures, with segmental arches at the center, triangular pediments on the left and right, and flat entablatures in between. The second-floor windows are adorned with lugged architraves.

The ground floor has fixed plate glass, while the upper floors feature plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows. The rear windows predominantly have multi-pane glazing. The roof is covered with grey Scottish slate, and there is a corniced ashlar gablehead stack with circular buff clay cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the ground-floor banking hall has decorative plasterwork that is currently concealed by a false ceiling. The entrance lobby, accessed through the left door on the principal elevation, leads to a stone stairway to the upper floors. The upper storeys predominantly feature six-panel timber doors within fluted architraves, along with some cornices, picture rails, and timber-panelled window surrounds. The second floor has timber chimneypieces, while the attic contains cast-iron chimneypieces. There is a serving bell indicator box above the door in the kitchen on the second floor. A U-shaped timber staircase with turned timber balusters and square newels connects the second floor to the attic.