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Latitude: 55.4213 / 55°25'16"N
Longitude: -2.7882 / 2°47'17"W
OS Eastings: 350206
OS Northings: 614434
OS Grid: NT502144
Mapcode National: GBR 85ZR.5F
Mapcode Global: WH7XG.4ZKV
Plus Code: 9C7VC6C6+GP
Entry Name: 2 Tower Knowe, Hawick
Listing Name: 2 Tower Knowe and 2 Kirkstile
Listing Date: 19 August 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 378911
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34620
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200378911
Location: Hawick
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Hawick
Electoral Ward: Hawick and Hermitage
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Earlier to mid 19th century. 4-storey, 3-bay, piend-roofed, Classical corner tenement, with shop at ground floor. Smooth render with moulded margins to principal elevation; painted rubble with painted polished ashlar margins to side elevation. Raised long and short quoins. Regular fenestration with corniced margins and raised cills at 1st and 2nd floors. 2-bay side (E) elevation with tenement door with fanlight to left.
12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Painted, ashlar-coped stack with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
A well-proportioned, traditional, early- to mid-19th-century building occupying a prominent corner position at the heart of Hawick. Tower Knowe served as the town's marketplace after 1815.
A building with a slightly different footprint is shown on John Wood's 1824 Plan of the Town and Environs of Hawick. The existing structure first appears on the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1857.
The ground floor and basement of this building were altered in 2007, as part of the multi-agency Heart of Hawick regeneration project, both now belonging to and having access from Tower Mill to the rear (listed separately). The ground floor forms a continuous space with the café area of the cultural and entertainment centre which is now housed in the Mill. List description revised and category changed from B to C(S) following resurvey (2008).
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