Museum And Crafts Centre, Bowanhill

Dating from the earlier 19th century Henderson's Knowe consists of a single-storey former smithy and two, flanking single-storey and attic cottages, each with a gablet dormerhead. The overall height of the building was raised in around 1870. The building is constructed in whinstone rubble with contrasting yellow sandstone, long and short dressings. There are bipartite windows at the ground floor with stone mullions. It is located alongside the A7 between Hawick and Langholm.

The northeast cottage is three bays wide and may have originally been stabling and a loft. There is a later extension at the rear. The former smithy has an enlarged entrance opening with a replacement door and a bipartite lattice-glazed window. To the right of the window is a small brass plaque, dating from 2003, commemorating Tom Jenkins teaching at the smithy between 1814 and 1818. The southwest cottage is four asymmetrical bays wide and has tooled quoins. The window opening in the gablehead has been enlarged.

The interior of the former smithy is currently in use as a retail space. The large raised traditional smithy hearth, curved alcoves in the outer wall (originally housing bellows), and two presses are retained. There is a bench below the front window, closely studded with nail-heads. The smithy has a replacement timber floor.

The windows are a mixture of traditional-style timber in sash and case frames, and uPVC, in various glazing patterns, some of which were made bipartite in around 1950. Later windows have been added in the gable-ends. The roof is slated, has five rooflights of various dates and three ridge chimneystacks. The gable ends have plain bargeboards and carved, projecting purlin ends.

There is a cobbled area in front of the building with a large mill-stone converted to a wheel jig and a stone anvil base set into the cobbles.