5 And 6 Tower Knowe

5 and 6 Tower Knowe is a three-storey and attic tenement building, likely constructed around 1900, located on a prominent corner site. The principal elevation on Tower Knowe features three bays, with a public house on the ground floor. The building has a bowed corner that rises to an octagonal tower and reduces to a five-bay side elevation facing Slitrig Water. It is built of tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, while the ground floor of the Tower Knowe elevation and the dressings of the ground floor of the Slitrig Water elevation are painted ashlar. The basement of the Slitrig Water elevation is made of whinstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

Architectural details include a base course, cornices on the ground and second floors, and a first-floor cornice on the Tower Knowe elevation only. The windows are regularly arranged, featuring predominantly stone-mullioned bipartite designs with stop-chamfered margins, and tall, pedimented dormers are present in each bay of the principal and east elevations.

The south elevation (Tower Knowe) has three stone steps leading to a recessed central door, flanked by shop windows on either side. Above, there are single lights in the central bay and bipartite windows in the outer bays. The bowed corner has a recessed door set in a stop-chamfered, roll-moulded architrave, with tripartite corner windows above. The tower features a panelled shaft and a tall, ogee roof topped with a weathervane.

The east elevation (Slitrig Water) includes a walkway with a decorative cast-iron balustrade leading to a central tenement door with a semicircular fanlight. Above this door are round-arched stair windows at the centre, flanked by single lights, with bipartite windows in the outer bays. The central gable has three round-arched windows.

The building predominantly features plate glass in timber sash and case windows, and it has a grey slate roof. The chimney stacks are corniced and banded ashlar, with some being octagonal and others circular clay cans. The property also includes cast-iron rainwater goods.