4 Howegate, Hawick

4 Howegate in Hawick is an earlier 19th century, three-storey, three-bay terraced tenement that has been redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull in the late 20th century. It is situated on a sloping site and features a painted ashlar shopfront, with squared and snecked whinstone rubble above, complemented by droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. The rear of the building is rendered.

The shopfront has a plain continuous fascia and an eaves course. The front has regular fenestration with raised margins and projecting sills, while the rear displays irregular fenestration. There are two recessed half-glazed timber-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights leading to asymmetrical shopfronts.

The shop windows are made of plate glass, and the building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped, rendered gablehead stacks with circular clay cans at the north end and rear offset gable. The building also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.