1 Tower Dykeside, Hawick

16th century tower house core, 1702 alterations, circa 1810 additional large wing to N, and extensive refurbishment 1995. 3-storey and attic, former hotel comprising 8-bay principal elevation to Tower Knowe, harled and crowstep-gabled tower house at SE corner, and 1995 addition in re-entrant angle to rear. Whinstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings (many renewed). Tabbed margined quoins to S (larger stones to penultimate bay to right marking 16th century tower). Principal (W) elevation with central, pilastered, shallow-arched doorpiece with side lights and plain pilaster strips extending to eaves; similar detailing to broad pend to far left. 3 Baronial-style gabled dormers breaking eaves to left; corbelled canted corner to outer right. Tower house with parapet walkway and water spouts; gunloop to ground floor; larger mid-19th century openings and reconstructed crowsteps to garret. 3-storey glazed section to rear linking tower house to new curved, rendered stair tower.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; ashlar-coped skews; corniced ridge and gable stacks; small rooflights. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Great Hall with some original beams and reconstructed painted ceiling (1995); roll-moulded stone fireplace. Vaulted cellar to ground floor. 3 commercial meeting rooms to front at first floor dating from the earlier 19th century with decorative plaster cornices and chimneypieces with cast-iron grates. Extensive 1995 renovations include concrete stair with metal handrail.