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Latitude: 55.4223 / 55°25'20"N
Longitude: -2.7875 / 2°47'15"W
OS Eastings: 350250
OS Northings: 614551
OS Grid: NT502145
Mapcode National: GBR 85ZR.92
Mapcode Global: WH7XG.4ZW1
Plus Code: 9C7VC6C6+WX
Entry Name: 23 High Street, Hawick
Listing Name: 23 High Street
Listing Date: 19 August 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 378944
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34641
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200378944
James Pearson Alison, 1898, with earlier wing to rear. 3-storey and attic, 2-bay, symmetrical tenement and shops forming part of terrace, with bow windows running through 1st and 2nd floors, pedimented dormers breaking eaves, and earlier 2-storey, L-plan, gabled block with forestair lining courtyard to rear. Polished yellow sandstone ashlar to front; yellow sandstone ashlar with polygonal yellow brick stair tower to rear; painted random rubble to rear 2-storey block. Shopfront cornice; string courses to transoms; 1st-floor cornice to curved bays; deep, full-length, 2nd-floor cornice crowning bow windows; moulded eaves course. Quoin strips. Tripartite, stone-mullioned and transomed windows to bows; bipartite, stone-mullioned dormers. Central inscribed stone plaque (see NOTES) between 1st-floor windows.
Fixed plate glass to shopfronts; plate glass in some timber sash-and-case windows above. Grey slate ridge roof; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar end stacks with buff clay cans.
An elegant, well-proportioned late-19th-century block with earlier portions to the rear, situated at the centre of Hawick's High Street and making a significant contribution to the streetscape.
James Pearson Alison (1862-1932) was Hawick's most prominent architect. He commenced practice in the town in 1888 and remained there until his death, 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.
The stone plaque reads '1753 / ALL WAS OTHERS / ALL WILL BE OTHERS / REBUILT 1898'. The first date refers to that of a similar plaque that was built into an earlier building on the site, and the wording is intended to remind passers-by of the transitory nature of existence.
The 2-storey block lining the rear courtyard is a remnant of the tenements leading down from the High Street to the river that originally lined many of the closes of the main thoroughfare and were mostly built around the early 19th century.
No 23 was previously listed jointly with Nos 25, 27 and 29, now each listed separately. List description revised following resurvey (2008).
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