Rectory, Lynnwood Road, Hawick

The rectory, built around 1858 by George Gilbert Scott, is a two-story, irregularly shaped building in the form of an "L". Originally a rectory (now subdivided), it has a multi-gabled roof with dormers that break the eaves. It is constructed from squared, snecked whinstone with dressings in droved yellow sandstone. The building features chamfered margins, long and short quoins.

The main (southeast) elevation has roughly three bays. A recessed, shouldered-arched entrance is set within a gabled porch on the right side of the elevation. The centre has a gable, and a dormer breaks the eaves to the left. The secondary (southwest) elevation has two gabled sections. The left side has a tripartite stone-mullioned window at ground level, and the right side has a canted window at ground level. A wallhead stack sits between the two gables. A secondary entrance is located in an advanced, gabled bay on the northeast elevation, featuring a two-leaf timber-panelled door with a fanlight and a window to the left, all within a shared, plain architrave. A verandah supported by a single central column connects this bay to a gabled former coach house on the outer right. A single-storey, cement-rendered extension has been added to the left in the later 20th century.

Most windows are timber sash-and-case with a predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in grey slate, with metal ridges and sawtooth skews featuring gabletted skewputts. Ashlar-coped stacks have circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are prevalent.

The interior includes a flagstone floor in the central hall, a central timber staircase with cast-iron balusters, a polished timber handrail, and a rectangular skylight. The doors are predominantly four-panel timber; some windows have timber-panelled shutters. Cornices are present, along with both marble and timber chimneypieces.

Three square, chamfered, tooled yellow sandstone gatepiers mark the entrances to the driveways of the “Old Rectory” and “Riversdale” sections on Slitrig Crescent. Whinstone rubble boundary walls with a pointed yellow sandstone ashlar cope surround the garden of the “Old Rectory” and the garden of “Riversdale” on the northwest and southwest sides. A yellow sandstone rubble wall with a pointed ashlar cope defines the northeastern side of the “Riversdale” driveway and garden.