3, 4 Tower Dykeside, Hawick is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971.
3, 4 Tower Dykeside, Hawick
- WRENN ID
- wild-porch-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 502 144
- Coordinates
- 55.42125, -2.78734
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Tower Dykeside in Hawick is a former hotel that originated as a 16th century tower house, with alterations made in 1702, a large wing added around 1810, and extensive refurbishment completed in 1995. The building is three stories tall with an attic and features an eight-bay principal elevation facing Tower Knowe. The southeast corner has a harled and crowstep-gabled tower house, while a 1995 addition is located in the re-entrant angle at the rear. The structure is primarily built of whinstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, many of which have been renewed. The southern side has tabbed margined quoins, with larger stones in the penultimate bay to the right indicating the original 16th century tower.
The principal (west) elevation showcases a central, pilastered, shallow-arched doorpiece flanked by sidelights, with plain pilaster strips extending to the eaves. Similar detailing is present on the broad pend to the far left. The left side features three Baronial-style gabled dormers that break the eaves, while the outer right corner has a corbelled canted design. The tower house includes a parapet walkway, water spouts, a gunloop on the ground floor, and larger mid-19th century openings with reconstructed crowsteps at the garret level. A three-storey glazed section at the rear connects the tower house to a new curved, rendered stair tower.
The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in grey slate, with ashlar-coped skews, a corniced ridge, gable stacks, and small rooflights. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, the Great Hall retains some original beams and has a reconstructed painted ceiling from 1995, along with a roll-moulded stone fireplace. There is a vaulted cellar on the ground floor. The first floor contains three commercial meeting rooms dating from the early 19th century, featuring decorative plaster cornices and chimneypieces with cast-iron grates. The extensive renovations in 1995 included a concrete stair with a metal handrail.
Local climate
3, 4 Tower Dykeside, Hawick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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