8 High Street, Hawick

4 High Street in Hawick is an early 19th century building featuring two three-storey and attic tenements with shops on the ground floor and dormers in the attic, forming part of a terrace. The shopfronts are finished in smooth render, while No 4 has tooled, ashlar-pattern stucco with painted, raised dressings and projecting cills on the first and second floors. No 6 is constructed of whinstone rubble with droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings and slightly raised, polished margins on the first and second floors. The rear is rendered with raised, polished ashlar cills. The shopfronts have plain stall risers and fascias, with quoin strips and basket-arched shop windows. The upper floors feature evenly spaced fenestration, while the rear has irregular fenestration.

For No 4, there is a central recessed, half-glazed, timber-panelled door with a fanlight, leading to a symmetrical shopfront. It also has a central piended dormer in the attic and a tenement entrance accessed via a side forestair at the rear.

No 6 features a timber-boarded tenement door with a rectangular fanlight on the outer left. The symmetrical shopfront on the right includes a central rectangular fanlight that is flush with the façade and a recessed, half-glazed, timber-panelled door. This tenement has two shallow piended dormers in the attic.

The shopfronts are fitted with plate glass, while the other windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing on the first and second floors and to the rear, and 4-pane glazing in the attic dormers. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a metal ridge. The gablehead stacks are coped and rendered, featuring circular buff clay cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.