Description

Later 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical tenement with 2 shops at ground floor and 2 canted dormers, forming part of terrace. Painted ashlar and smooth render to shopfront; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with raised, polished ashlar dressings above. Shopfront cornice; 1st-floor cill course; eaves course connecting 2nd-floor lintels; cornice. Stop-chamfered window margins, with bracketed cills at 2nd floor. Central 6-panel timber tenement door with fanlight in shouldered architrave flanked by plain shopfronts at ground floor (No 79 retaining historic door and glazing; No 77 with later-20th-century shopfront); rectangular openings at 1st floor; basket-arched openings at 2nd floor.

Plate glass to shopfronts; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; non-traditional uPVC glazing to 2nd floor and attic. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped skews. Coped ashlar gablehead stack with buff clay cans.

Statement of Interest

B-Group comprises Nos 77, 79, 81, 83 and 85 High Street and 3 and 4 Oliver Place - see separate list entries.

A well-proportioned, later-19th-century block which makes a good contribution to the run of buildings at the later, northern end of Hawick's High Street. It shares some features - including the corbelled cills and margins of the second-floor windows which lead into the eaves course - with the adjacent buildings at Nos 81, 83 and 85 High Street and 3 and 4 Oliver Place, although it does not have the richness of the latter buildings. It was presumably built at a similar time to these neighbouring buildings, which date from around 1878.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77781015

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)