Rectory, Lynnwood Road, Hawick

George Gilbert Scott, circa 1858. 2-storey, irregular L-plan, plain Jacobean former rectory (now subdivided) with multi-gabled roof and gabled dormers breaking eaves. Squared, snecked whinstone with droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Chamfered margins. Long and short quoins.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Roughly 3-bay principal (SE) elevation with recessed, shouldered-arched, timber-boarded door with wrought-iron hinges within gabled porch to recessed bay to right; gable to centre; dormer breaking eaves to left. 2 gabled bays to front (Old Rectory) part of secondary (SW) elevation, with tripartite, stone-mullioned window to left and canted window to right at ground floor; central wallhead stack between gables. Secondary (Riversdale) entrance in advanced, gabled bay to centre of NE elevation; 2-leaf, timber-panelled door with fanlight and flanking window to left within shared plain architrave; verandah supported by single central column linking central bay to advanced, gabled former coach house to outer right; later-20th-century, single-storey, cement-rendered extension to left.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash-and-case windows. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Sawtooth skews with gabletted skewputts. Ashlar-coped stacks with circular clay cans. Predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Flagstone floor to central hall. Central timber stair with cast-iron balusters, polished timber handrail, and rectangular skylight. Predominantly 4-panel timber doors; some timber-panelled shutters to windows. Cornices. Some marble and some timber chimneypieces.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 3 square, chamfered, tooled yellow sandstone gatepiers flanking entrances to driveways of Old Rectory and Riversdale on Slitrig Crescent. Whinstone rubble boundary walls with pointed yellow sandstone ashlar cope surrounding garden of Old Rectory and to NW and SW sides of garden of Riversdale; yellow sandstone rubble wall with pointed ashlar cope to NE side of Riversdale drive and garden.