4 Tower Dykeside

3 Tower Dykeside is a traditional former inn from the early 19th century, refurbished between 1990 and 1995. It has been converted for commercial and residential use and features a three-storey west range, a single-storey and attic north range, and a single-storey east range that lines a courtyard. The building is constructed of roughly coursed whinstone rubble with polished and droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. The west range has an eaves course, and the fenestration is irregular, with tabbed ashlar margins and projecting cills. The building includes gablehead and wallhead stacks.

The west elevation features low steps and a ramp leading to a multi-pane timber-panelled door with sidelights and a tripartite fanlight, all set within a pilastered, corniced architrave to the left. To the right is a concave recess next to a blank ground floor. The upper storeys have five unevenly spaced bays, with the left-hand windows being bipartite and stone-mullioned. The symmetrical, gabled south elevation has two bays, while the east (courtyard) elevation has six unevenly spaced bays, with steps leading to a multi-pane-glazed, timber-panelled door in a corniced architrave to the left and the north wing advanced to the right. The north elevation, adjoining the north wing, is four storeys high and gabled, featuring a recessed stone step leading to a central timber door and irregular fenestration.

The north range has irregular fenestration on its north elevation, including a segmental-arched pend to the right and a central doorway with a nepus gable and gablehead stack. The south (courtyard) elevation also has irregular fenestration, with a central door, a segmental-arched pend to the left, two piended dormers breaking the eaves, and a canted, corbelled oriel dormer breaking the eaves to the right.

The east range is a single-storey, piend-roofed block attached to the north range, featuring hanging, sliding doors for broad workshop openings on the west and east elevations, along with a door and window on the left side of the west (courtyard) elevation.

The building has multi-pane glazing, including some lying panes in the west range, and timber sash-and-case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, and it features ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. The stacks have ashlar coping and dressings, with some octagonal and some circular buff clay cans.