Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

17 HIGH STREETLB34640

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
19/08/1977
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Burgh
Hawick
NGR
NT 50214 14523
Coordinates
350214, 614523

Description

Earlier to mid-19th century. 3-storey and attic, 4-bay tenement forming part of terrace, with 3 shops and pend at ground and 3 dormers to ridge roof. Smooth-rendered shopfronts; painted tooled ashlar with painted polished ashlar margins and raised cills above; rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings to rear. Regular fenestration. Panelled stallrisers to shopfronts; eaves course. Timber-panelled, three-quarter-glazed doors with rectangular fanlights to shopfronts including good example of curved 'island' window to right shop with basket-arched window surrounds and foliate capitals to glazing bars; central canted dormer flanked by gabled dormers.

Fixed plate glass to shop windows, some curved; plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Rendered, ashlar-coped ridge stack with circular buff clay cans to S.

Statement of Special Interest

One of the earlier buildings on High Street at the centre of Hawick, retaining its original proportions and some fine details including elegantly curved windows to the late-19th or early-20th-century shopfronts, and of high value to the streetscape.

This building was previously listed jointly with Nos 13, 15, 19 and 21 High Street. Nos 19 and 21 are now listed separately, and Nos 13 and 15 were removed form the list following resurvey in 2008.

The pend is known as Round Close and was originally - like many other closes off High Street - lined with tenements leading down to the river, mostly built from the beginning of the 19th century. The close assumed its current shape in 1871. A triangular stone inscribed 'J.S.M.D. Feare Gode. 1600' (now indecipherable), incorporated into the wall of the building lining the north-east side of the close, is a remnant of an earlier building on the site. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

References

Bibliography

Shown on Ordnance Survey Town Plan (1857). R E Scott, Companion to Hawick and District, 3rd Edition (1998), p20.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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