Tower Hotel, 103-105 High Street, Elgin

The Tower Hotel, located at 103-105 High Street in Elgin, dates back to 1634 and was remodelled by Dr. Mackay after 1859. The building features a rubble-built circular tower with two stages and a small square cap house that is corbelled out at the third stage. The doorway in the tower has roll moulded and chamfered architraves, and there is a moulded string course between the ground and first floors. The cap house has a crowstepped design with a small iron cross at its apex. A datestone is inset by the first-floor window, and there is a small shaped pediment with the date and initials at the wallhead.

The tower is now attached to a three-storey asymmetrical house designed in the Scots Baronial style. The ground floor features a modern shop front that projects out, with a cast iron balustrade above. The upper facade is recessed and constructed of stugged snecked rubble with polished ashlar dressings. It includes a two-storey bowed window that is mullioned and transomed, adorned with cable moulding decorated with animal heads above each window, and has a half conical roof with plate glass glazing. There is a turret in the re-entrant angle with a conical roof covered in fish-scaled slates, crowsteps, and a single corniced end stack. The building has a slate roof and modern extensions at the rear.