2 Tower Knowe and 2 Kirkstile Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Listed Building Description
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Earlier to mid 19th century. 4-storey, 3-bay, piend-roofed, Classical corner tenement, with shop at ground floor. Smooth render with moulded margins to principal elevation; painted rubble with painted polished ashlar margins to side elevation. Raised long and short quoins. Regular fenestration with corniced margins and raised cills at 1st and 2nd floors. 2-bay side (E) elevation with tenement door with fanlight to left. 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Painted, ashlar-coped stack with circular buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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A well-proportioned, traditional, early- to mid-19th-century building occupying a prominent corner position at the heart of Hawick. Tower Knowe served as the town's marketplace after 1815. A building with a slightly different footprint is shown on John Wood's 1824 Plan of the Town and Environs of Hawick. The existing structure first appears on the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1857. The ground floor and basement of this building were altered in 2007, as part of the multi-agency Heart of Hawick regeneration project, both now belonging to and having access from Tower Mill to the rear (listed separately). The ground floor forms a continuous space with the café area of the cultural and entertainment centre which is now housed in the Mill. List description revised and category changed from B to C(S) following resurvey (2008).
Listed Building References
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Shown on Ordnance Survey Town Plan (1857).