19 Siltrig Crescent

Early 19th century, two-storey, L-plan with courtyard, former brewery (now converted to residential), constructed of random whinstone rubble with red and yellow sandstone dressings, raised margins. Ashlar-coped skews. Corniced ashlar stacks with circular buff clay cans. There is a later lean-to entrance porch to the first bay of No 17. The piended roof has a covering of grey slate with metal ridges.

Windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with a 12-pane glazing pattern to the larger upper floor of No 18 evidencing the building's former use as brewery. There are the remains of a hoist over the second window from the right at the upper storey. The southwest wing (No 19) has smaller, irregularly spaced openings to front and rear.

The interior (seen 2008) has some cast-iron columns supporting the low ceiling at ground floor of No 18. Some tongue and groove panelling to walls. 4-panel timber doors to No 19.

Historical development

A lease for a whisky still-house and brewery with kiln and barn was first granted on the land to the southwest of the Slitrig Water in 1739, and an early wool mill operated here by 1788 (Scott: Hawick Word Book). The development of private and industrial buildings along Slitrig Crescent was one of the town's first expansions beyond its medieval boundaries.

The former brewery at 17, 18, 19 Slitrig Crescent was constructed after 1799, when the ribbon development and road was formally laid out. The brewery building is shown on John Wood's town map of 1824.

Closing as a brewery in 1879, the building was converted to other uses including a Church Hall for St Cuthbert's Church (LB34664, located directly opposite), a nursery, and then residential conversion in 1980. In 2015, numbers 18 and 19 were integrated to form a single dwelling house over two floors.