Slitrig Bank House, 1 Slitrig Bank, Hawick

Early 19th century with late 19th century additions. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled, symmetrical house with painted margins and 2 canted dormers. Whinstone rubble with droved sandstone ashlar dressings to principal (SE) elevation; rendered elsewhere. Eaves course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 3 stone steps to recessed 4-panel timber front door with rectangular fanlight. NE (side) elevation with irregular ground-floor fenestration and 2 timber-boarded doors to front and rear cellars. 2-storey off-centre extension to rear with forestair to right.

4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows to principal elevation; modern glazing elsewhere. Ashlar-coped, rendered gablehead stacks with thackstanes and red clay cans. Grey slate roof with metal ridge.

INTERIOR: 6-panel timber doors throughout. Some cornices and timber chimneypieces. Central U-plan timber staircase with turned timber balustrade. Timber-boarded partitions in cellars.

BOUNDARY WALL: Low whinstone retaining wall to front, NE side and rear, with red sandstone ashlar coping to front and curved rubble coping elsewhere.