Description

Earlier 19th century with later additions and alterations. 2-storey and basement, 3-bay, roughly L-plan piend-roofed former house with central stone bridging stair to pilastered, architraved doorway at raised ground-floor level. Squared, coursed sandstone with raised ashlar margins, painted to principal (SW) elevation and rendered to NW and NE elevations. Band course above basement; 1st floor cill course; eaves course. Raised quoin strips.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash-and-case windows. Central ashlar wallhead stacks. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

WALL AND RAILINGS: Low ashlar-coped wall and cast-iron railings mostly with fleur-de-lys finials enclosing basement.

Statement of Interest

An elegantly proportioned traditional stone house situated in a prominent position at the heart of Hawick, adjacent to the Albert Bridge and overlooking both the River Teviot and Sandbed.

Bridge House does not appear on John Wood's Plan of the Town and Environs of Hawick (1824). It is shown on the Ordnance Survey Town Plan of 1857 as rectangular in plan with a very small protrusion to the rear, probably a porch. By the time of the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1897) it had been extended to the rear to form an L-plan. The rear has been further modified in the 20th century, but the principal elevation remains mostly in its original state, with the exception of the widened windows to the basement.

The building is now subdivided, with Sandbed Launderette & Dry Cleaners occupying the basement, Sergio's Italian restaurant the ground floor, and flats at first floor. When converted for commercial use, the room layouts of the basement and ground floors were entirely altered, and their internal features removed with the exception of the timber shutters to the restaurant windows. List description revised following resurvey (2008).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635171

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)