Description

Circa 1878. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay tenement with 2 shops at ground floor, forming part of terrace, with 2 bipartite, stone-mullioned wallhead dormers and mansard roof. Painted ashlar shopfronts; tooled yellow sandstone ashlar with raised, polished ashlar dressings above; roughly squared yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and raised cills to rear; single-storey rear brick extension. Plain shopfront fascias with continuous cornice; cill course and continuous hoodmoulds at 1st floor; eaves course connecting 2nd-floor lintels and rising to corbelled cornice broken beneath dormers by raised sections with roundels. Quoin strips. Stop-chamfered margins. Shouldered window architraves at 1st floor; basket-arched margins and corbelled cills at 2nd floor. Central, 6-panel, timber tenement door with 4-pane, shouldered fanlight.

Fixed plate glass to shopfronts; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof; some ashlar-coped skews; corniced ashlar stacks with octagonal buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

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, well-detailed, later-19th-century block situated at the later, north end of Hawick's High Street and making a strong contribution to the streetscape.

This building is almost identical to No 85 High Street and, like that building, was probably built at the same time as the adjacent No 3 Oliver Place, which was commissioned by James Oliver of Thornwood (1817-1905), who made his fortune in the auctioneering business and was one of the town's wealthiest and most prominent figures at the time. The block at No 3 Oliver Place has far more elaborately carved detail, but many of its essential forms - continuous hoodmoulds, cill courses, eaves courses, corbelled cornice - are shared with No 4. (Nos 83-85 High Street and Nos 1-4 Oliver Place were previously listed together as a single item.) List description revised following resurvey (2008).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77781045

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