Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

11 HIGH STREET, LLOYDS TSBLB34639

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
19/08/1977
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Burgh
Hawick
NGR
NT 50219 14513
Coordinates
350219, 614513

Description

James Pearson Alison, 1914. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay, Renaissance palazzo-style bank forming part of terrace, with channelled ground floor, deep entablature and recessed attic storey. Yellow sandstone ashlar to front; squared yellow sandstone with some polished ashlar and brick dressings to rear. Base course; corniced fascia; deep eaves frieze and deep dentilled cornice. Round-arched openings at ground floor; rectangular openings elsewhere.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf, 6-panel timber doors with sunburst fanlights to outer bays at ground floor, the left with raised, stepped keystone; single horizontal glazing bar at springing point in 3 central windows. 1st-floor windows with projecting, bracketed cills, blocked architraves, and alternating pediments and entablatures -segmental-arched at centre, triangular at left and right, and flat in between. 2nd-floor windows with lugged architraves.

Fixed plate glass at ground floor; plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows above; predominantly multi-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows to rear. Grey Scottish slate roof. Corniced ashlar gablehead stack with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Ground-floor banking hall with decorative plasterwork now hidden by false ceiling. Timber-panelled entrance lobby through left door in principal elevation, leading to stone stair to upper floors. Predominantly 6-panel timber doors in fluted architraves throughout upper storeys; some cornices and picture rails; some timber-panelled window surrounds; some timber chimneypieces at 2nd floor and cast-iron chimneypieces in attic. Serving bell indicator box above door in kitchen at 2nd floor. U-shaped timber staircase with turned timber balusters and square newels from 2nd floor to attic.

Statement of Special Interest

An elegantly proportioned Renaissance-style bank in a central position on the High Street at the heart of Hawick, designed by James Pearson Alison (1862-1932), Hawick's most prominent architect. 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.

The upper storeys would originally have provided offices and living accommodation for the bank manager. The first floor still contains offices, now used by other companies, and the room layout is little altered. The second floor and attic retain their original layout as a two-storey 'house', and are separately owned.

The interior features are by Scott Morton & Co. William Scott Morton (1840-1903) set up the company in Glasgow with his younger brother John and a mechanical engineer in 1870, William initially practising as an architect and designer whilst John took charge of the cabinet-making, wallpaper manufacturing and interior design workshops. It was for interior decoration and furnishing that the firm became known, achieving wide acclaim and carrying out work on structures as diverse as banks, churches, private houses and steam yachts.

The building was originally Hawick Savings Bank. Founded as the Hawick Bank for the Savings of Industry on 7 January 1815, it was established to encourage the working classes to put aside money, and is the oldest savings bank with a continuous existence in the British Isles. It occupied a succession of different premises prior to the construction of this building. In 1960 the Langholm Savings Bank was merged with the Hawick one, and Jedburgh joined the merger in 1967. Further amalgamations with Trustee Savings Banks over a broad area took place in the early 1970s, resulting in the change of name to the Trustee Savings Bank, and more recently Lloyds TSB. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

References

Bibliography

Plans in Aitken Turnbull archive, Hawick. Shown on 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1897). Charles Alexander Strang, Borders and Berwick: An Illustrated Architectural Guide (RIAS, 1994), p141. R E Scott, Companion to Hawick and District, 3rd Edition (1998), pp19-20. Kitty Cruft, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett, The Buildings of Scotland: Borders (2006), p359. Dictionary of Scottish Architects (www.scottisharchitects.org.uk) [accessed 12 December 2007].

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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