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30 High Street, Hawick

A Category C Listed Building in Hawick, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.4223 / 55°25'20"N

Longitude: -2.7869 / 2°47'12"W

OS Eastings: 350292

OS Northings: 614552

OS Grid: NT502145

Mapcode National: GBR 85ZR.G1

Mapcode Global: WH7XG.5Z51

Plus Code: 9C7VC6C7+W7

Entry Name: 30 High Street, Hawick

Listing Name: 30 High Street

Listing Date: 19 August 1977

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 378932

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34633

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200378932

Location: Hawick

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Hawick

Electoral Ward: Hawick and Hermitage

Traditional County: Roxburghshire

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Description

Later 19th century, with later 20th century bank front. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay tenement with bank at ground floor, forming part of terrace. Cladding (probably concrete) at ground floor; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings above. Base course; 1st-floor cill and lintel courses and continuous hoodmould; 2nd-floor continuous hoodmould and modillioned cornice; eaves course. Quoin strips. Stop-chamfered, roll-moulded, raised margins.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Channelled pilasters and cladding to ground floor; timber-panelled tenement door with fanlight to right of centre flanked by 2 bank entrances; half-glazed bank front section to outer right; 6 full-height slit windows with recessed transoms to outer left. Segmental-arched windows at 1st floor; Tudor-arched windows to upper storeys, with bracketed cills and ornamental keystones at 2nd floor and pedimented dormers breaking eaves. Yellow brick lean-to sheds with timber-boarded doors against ashlar-coped rubble wall to rear.

Fixed plate glass to bank; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above and to rear; 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to stair at rear. Grey slate roof with metal ridge; ashlar-coped, kneelered skews; ashlar-coped, rendered end stack with circular buff clay cans.

INTERIOR: Stone tenement stair with spiral cast-iron balusters and polished timber handrail; cast metal letterboxes with bat motif to 4-panel timber doors to flats.

Statement of Interest

A well-proportioned later-19th-century tenement block with good detailing and a typical later-19th-century Clydesdale Bank frontage to ground floor, forming a valuable component of the streetscape of Hawick's High Street.

No 30 High Street was previously listed jointly with No 32 High Street (and Cross Wynd), now listed separately. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

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