2 High Street, Hawick

Mid 19th century with 20th-century wing to rear. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, ridge-roofed, symmetrical tenement and shop forming part of terrace, with Baronial-style gabled dormers breaking eaves. Painted ashlar to shopfront; tooled yellow sandstone ashlar with polished ashlar dressings above; roughly squared yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to rear; rendered with yellow sandstone ashlar quoins to rear wing. Plain stall risers; consoled, corniced shopfront fascia; 1st-floor cill course; continuous 2nd-floor hoodmould; eaves course broken by dormers. Decorative, stop-chamfered margins. Shallow, 3-storey, piend-roofed wing to rear.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Plain shopfront with central recessed, half-glazed, timber door flanked by large shop windows with central vertical glazing bars; decoratively shaped margins with cusped detailing at 1st floor; slightly raised cills with deep corbels at 2nd floor; gabled dormers with kneelered skews and fleur-de-lys finials. Plaque commemorating Adam Grant between 1st-floor windows to right (see NOTES). Rear elevation with 3-storey wing to left and regularly spaced windows with raised cills in 2 bays to right.

Plate glass to shop windows; 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to rear. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Ashlar-coped skew to S. Coped ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans.