Tower Knowe, Drumlanrig's Tower, Including Boundary Walls and Railings to S · Photo: Victuallers · CC BY-SA 4.0124 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Hawick’s locality, 116 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 32 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town.
Hawick in 36 photos and old views
Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Hawick Town Hall, 34-42 High Street, excluding the mid-20th century two storey, six bay section fronting High Street, the adjacent and internally connected ground floor level below 44 High Street and Category A listed
Kirkstile, Former Tower MillCategory A listed
North Bridge Street, Hawick Library, Including 1 and 2 Laidlaw TerraceCategory B listed
1 Dovemount Place, The Station HotelCategory C listed
Bourtree Place, Hawick Congregational Community Church and HallsCategory C listed+31See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
Hawick from 1890 to 1890
3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1890
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c. 1890Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Hawick’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
The 3 Category A listed buildings in Hawick
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
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Buildings of regional importance. 27 are photographed.
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BHigh Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Of the 124 entries, 79 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of Hawick’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
86 entries (69%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
88 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 88 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 8.9% of Hawick
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
93 of the 124 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.
More than half of Hawick’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 7 entries were listed in 1971, 2 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 67 came in 1977, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.
30 notable people born in Hawick before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Hawick → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Hawick has the 30th most Category A buildings of 175 towns its size
Scottish towns of 4,000–27,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.
29 have more. The typical town its size has 1.
Listed buildings in the places around Hawick
Hawick in brief
The official list counts 124 listed buildings in Hawick, 3 of them in the top category. Only 29 of the 175 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. High Street alone has 19 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.
Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 30 people born here before 1900, the best known include Andrew Smith (1797), James Wilson (1805) and Ivan Laing (1885). The big year was 1977, when 67 of the 124 went on the list. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Hawick’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hawick?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 124 buildings inside Hawick’s locality: 3 Category A, 33 Category B and 88 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Hawick?
3, including Hawick Town Hall, 34-42 High Street, excluding the mid-20th century two storey, six bay section fronting High Street, the adjacent and internally connected ground floor level below 44 High Street and the flat roofed sections to its rear., High Street, The Horse and Kirkstile, Former Tower Mill.
Which street in Hawick has the most listed buildings?
High Street (19), Howegate (9) and Buccleuch Street (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Hawick?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Hawick Moat Park, motte.
How many conservation areas are there in Hawick?
1, covering about 41 hectares of the town. The largest is Hawick.
When were Hawick’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 67, in 1977.
Are there old photos of Hawick?
Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1890 to 1890, all on this page.
Who was born in Hawick?
Among people born before 1900: Andrew Smith (1797), James Wilson (1805), Ivan Laing (1885), James Paris Lee (1831) and John Blackwood McEwen (1868).
Hawick has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.
Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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