5 And 6 Tower Knowe

Probably circa 1900. 3-storey and attic tenement on prominent corner site with 3 bays to principal (Tower Knowe) elevation, public house at ground floor, bowed corner rising to octagonal tower, and dropping a further storey to 5-bay side (Slitrig Water) elevation. Tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; painted ashlar to ground floor of Tower Knowe elevation and to dressings of ground floor of Slitrig Water elevation; whinstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings to basement of Slitrig Water elevation. Base course; ground-floor and 2nd-floor cornices; 1st-floor cornice to Tower Knowe elevation only. Regular fenestration of predominantly stone-mullioned bipartites; stop-chamfered margins; tall, pedimented dormers to each bay of principal and E elevations.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 3 stone steps to recessed central door to S (Tower Knowe) elevation, with shop windows to left and right; single lights to central bay and bipartite windows to outer bays above. Recessed door in stop-chamfered, roll-moulded architrave to bowed corner; tripartite corner windows above; panelled shaft and tall, ogee roof with weathervane to tower. E (Slitrig Water) elevation with walkway with decorative cast-iron balustrade leading to central tenement door with semicircular fanlight; round-arched stair windows at centre above; single flanking lights; bipartite windows to outer bays. 3 round-arched windows to central gable.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof. Corniced, banded ashlar stacks with some octagonal and some circular clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.