Hawick, Slitrig Crescent, Slitrig Dyeworks
Dye Works (19th Century)
Site Name Hawick, Slitrig Crescent, Slitrig Dyeworks
Classification Dye Works (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 1, 2, 3 And 4 Slitrig Crescent; John Turnbull And Sons, Dyers And Finishers
Canmore ID 178671
Site Number NT51SW 134
NGR NT 50316 14301
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/178671
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hawick
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT51SW 134 5030 1430
During March 1999, RCAHMS conducted a photographic survey of the standing industrial heritage relating to the textile industry in Hawick. The purpose of this survey was to enhance and augment the holdings of the existing National Monuments Record Scotland.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), February 1999
One of three 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled houses forming terrace. Mostly coursed whinstone rubble with tabbed, droved ashlar margins; some squared sandstone to rear. Eaves course.
NO 4: Central segmental-arched pend with keystone; moulded architrave to left ground-floor window; bipartite stone-mullioned central window at 1st floor; blocked, flat-headed dormer to left at attic. Full-height gabled wing to rear with irregular fenestration. 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to principal elevation of No 5; front openings at Nos 3 and 4 now blocked; predominantly non-traditional windows to rear. Ashlar-coped skews. Later ashlar-coped brick ridge stacks with some circular buff clay cans. Grey slate roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Head-height, ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls extending forward from left of pend entrance at No 4 and between forecourts of Nos 4 and 5.
A good, traditional, early-19th-century range of houses which makes a strong contribution to the streetscape of Slitrig Crescent. These houses formed part of a continuous terrace which ran the entire length of Slitrig Crescent. The block at No 6 has been removed, and the gable end of No 5 finished in red brick. Nos 3 and 4 were derelict at the time of HS visit (2007), but retain their original window, door and pend margins and as such are important to an understanding of how the whole Crescent would originally have looked. ( Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
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