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Summary

Description

Dated 1846. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa. Finely stugged ashlar S elevation; remaining elevations squared and snecked rubble. Ashlar dressings. Base course. Eaves cornice and blocking course. Slightly raisedm margins. Angle margins on S and W elevations.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: corniced and moulded door surround with strapwork ornament above bearing monogram "AM" and inscribed "1846" at centre; panelled door with 2-pane fanlight. Canted windows in outer bays at ground floor; moulded surrounds, cornice and parapet with pierced semicircular ornament in coping. Regular fenestration at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: window to left and right at ground. Window in centre at 1st floor; small attic window above.

N (EDINBURGH ROAD) ELEVATION: stair window at centre flanked by slit windows (left slit blocked); 3 slit windows at ground. Regular fenestration in outer bays. Metal portrait plaque, signed "Alan S Heriot 1963", and further plaque below bearing inscription "Alexander Mitchell, First Provost of Dalkeith", placed below stair window.

E ELEVATION: small attic window. Low 2-storey service block adjoined to right; modern door to left of recessed S elevation, with broad window to right and 2 windows at 1st floor; gabled E elevation blank. Blank gabled elevation advanced to N; window at ground and 1st floor to W return and to left to E return.

Largely plate glass glazing pattern in sash and case windows; 12-pane glazing pattern in canted windows with 8-pane side lights; 2-pane glazing pattern in slit windows. Coped skews. Corniced stacks to gableheads, with flutes dividing flues of house stacks. Grey slates.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar coped rubble boundary walls. Corniced painted ashlar gatepiers linked by cast-iron fleur-de-lis overthrow, with simple wrought-iron pedestrian gate, to NW. Low wall links E gatepier and NW corner of N wing; garden wall adjoined to W gatepier. Low wall adjoined to NE corner of N wing. Ashlar and brick wall with garden door adjoined to E elevation of SE wing, shielding lean-to outbuildings behind.

Statement of Special Interest

The house was built by Alexander Mitchell, first Provost of Dalkeith. A wall previously linked the SE corner of the house with the garden wall, creating a small courtyard.

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