4 Howegate, Hawick

Earlier 19th century, redeveloped by Aitken & Turnbull of Hawick, late 20th century. 3-storey, 3-bay terraced tenement with shops, set on sloping site. Painted ashlar to shopfront; squared and snecked whinstone rubble above, with droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings; rendered to rear. Plain continuous shopfront fascia; eaves course. Regular fenestration to front, with raised margins and projecting cills; irregular fenestration to rear. 2 recessed half-glazed timber-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights to asymmetrical shopfronts.

Plate glass shop windows; predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Coped, rendered gablehead stacks with circular clay cans to N end and rear offset gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods.