3 Tower Dykeside

Early and earlier 19th century; refurbished 1990-5 (see NOTES). Traditional former inn (now converted for commercial and residential use) with 3-storey W range, single-storey and attic N range, and single-storey E range lining courtyard. Roughly coursed whinstone rubble with polished and droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Eaves course to W range only. Irregular fenestration with tabbed ashlar margins and projecting cills. Gablehead and wallhead stacks.

W RANGE: W elevation with low steps and ramp to multi-pane timber-panelled door with side lights and tripartite fanlight in pilastered, corniced architrave to left; concave recess to right of otherwise blank ground floor; 5 unevenly spaced bays to upper storeys, the left-hand windows bipartite and stone-mullioned. 2-bay, symmetrical, gabled S elevation. 6 unevenly spaced bays to E (courtyard) elevation: steps to multi-pane-glazed, timber-panelled door in corniced architrave to left; N wing advanced to right. 4-storey, gabled N elevation adjoining N wing, with recessed stone step to central timber door. Irregular fenestration.

N RANGE: Irregular fenestration to N elevation with segmental-arched pend to right, and central doorway and nepus gable with gablehead stack. Irregular fenestration to S (courtyard) elevation with central door, segmental-arched pend to left, 2 piended dormers breaking eaves, and canted, corbelled oriel dormer breaking eaves to right.

E RANGE: Single-storey, piend-roofed block, attached to N range, with hanging, sliding doors to broad workshop openings in W and E elevations; door and window to left of W (courtyard) elevation.

Multi-pane glazing (some lying pane to W range) in timber sash-and-case windows. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. Ashlar cope and dressings to stacks with some octagonal and some circular buff clay cans.