Description

Circa 1800. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical end block, with shop to ground and flats above. Smooth render to ground floor, harled stone above with painted raised ashlar margins. Plain, modern fascia to ground-floor shop. 3-bay S (Buccleuch Street) elevation with 2 canted dormers; 2-bay E (Sandbed) elevation; irregular fenestration to N (Orrock Place) elevation with forestair.

Plate glass glazing to shop; 4-pane glazing in timber sash-and-case windows to upper storeys. Coped, rendered gablehead stack with circular buff clay cans. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

A prominently positioned former inn with substantially unaltered exterior, situated at the heart of Hawick and predating the town's expansion along Buccleuch Street to the west which began in 1815. Built as an island block, it is now attached to No 4 Buccleuch Street but retains its original window pattern and glazing on its other three elevations, although the original frontage of the ground floor is long gone.

In the early 19th century the building was the Burns Inn, which once housed Robert 'Lurgie' Wilson, author of the first history of Hawick in 1825. By 1914 the ground floor was the premises of grocer James O Elliot; in the 1950s it was J Burns & Co, Ironmongers; and in the early 1980s it was an antiques shop. The building was restored in 1992.

No original interior features remain in the ground floor. Upper storeys are understood to be entirely modernised. List description revised and category changed from B to C(S) following resurvey (2008).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635176

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