Old Parish Church Hall, Buccleuch Street, Hawick

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 19/08/1977 Supplementary Information Updated 18/11/2008 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Hawick NGR NT 49861 14399 Coordinates 349861, 614399 — Michael Brodie, 1885-6. T-plan, gabled, Romanesque church hall with pinnacled angle buttresses, round-arched windows and incorporating former caretaker's flat to S. Roughly coursed whinstone with polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course to principal (N) elevation and front parts of side elevations; corbelled eaves course to front parts of side elevations. Predominantly round-arched openings with chamfered window margins; rectangular windows to regularly fenestrated rear (S) and to irregularly fenestrated gable at right of W elevation. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Principal (N) elevation with central 2-leaf timber-boarded door in round-arched doorway within slightly advanced, coped surround flanked by gabletted buttresses; single window to each side; tripartite stone-mullioned triple-arched window above; oculus in gable. E elevation with evenly spaced windows and buttresses to front section; tripartite stone-mullioned window flanked by single windows to advanced gable to rear, with oculus in gable. (S) elevation with 4 windows at ground floor and 2 at 1st floor; stone steps to modern door with 2-pane fanlight to outer left. W elevation similar to E elevation; 3 windows at ground floor and 1 at 1st floor to advanced rear gable with curved skewputts; plain railing surrounding stone steps to cellar. Single-storey, flat-roofed, 20th-century entrance extension at re-entrant angle of W gable, with timber-boarded door. Predominantly geometric-patterned leaded glass to round-arched windows; 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows elsewhere. Ashlar-coped

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.