Description

James Pearson Alison, 1900, incorporating earlier fabric. Single-bay, 3-storey and attic former clubhouse and tenement forming part of terrace, with late-20th-century shopfront at ground floor, slightly recessed upper storeys with 2-storey canted window at 1st and 2nd floor and attic gable topped by plinth supporting open pediment. Smooth-rendered shopfront; red sandstone ashlar with polished dressings above; some brick and some random rubble to rear. Consoled fascia and cornice to shopfront; cornices over canted windows; parapet with incised detailing. Tripartite stone-mullioned windows in chamfered surrounds. Chamfered stone mullions to all windows.

Fixed plate glass to shopfront; plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows above; stained-glass stair window overlooking pend to NE at rear. Grey slate roof; moulded ashlar skews; corniced ashlar gablehead stack.

INTERIOR: Timber stair with timber balustrade accessed through door in pend to right.

Statement of Interest

A distinctive, Dutch-inspired former clubhouse incorporating parts of an earlier structure to the rear, forming a valuable component of the streetscape of Hawick's High Street and designed by James Pearson Alison (1862-1932), Hawick's most prominent architect. The building was constructed for the Border Club, which now resides at 43 North Bridge Street, also by J P Alison (see separate listing).

Alison commenced practice in the town in 1888 and remained there until his death in 1932, during which period he was responsible for a large number of buildings of widely varying types and styles, including a considerable proportion of Hawick's listed structures. He carried out the principal work on this building in 1900 and executed additional work in 1902. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635135

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