Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

175 HIGH STREET, MILITIA HOUSELB24405

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
30/06/1983
Local Authority
Midlothian
Planning Authority
Midlothian
Burgh
Dalkeith
NGR
NT 33371 67640
Coordinates
333371, 667640

Description

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey rectangular house (remaining portion of L-plan house) with octagonal stair tower on NE corner and broadly chamfered SE corner. Rubble. Tower rendered, and painted except for 3 sides at ground facing E; eaves course and band course between floors of tower. Variety of margins; wooden margins and reveals to tower; slightly raised droved surrounds with stugged tails to E.

E (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: chamfered arris to door to left of centre with letterbox fanlight and panelled door; window above. Tower to right with window at ground and 1st floor to E. Window at 1st floor on chamfered angle to left.

W ELEVATION: modern porch at centre. linked to modern single-storey building running W; window to left. Broad tripartite window at centre at 1st floor with droved ashlar mullions.

N ELEVATION: 4 irregularly sized and disposed windows, blind window to right at 1st floor; nesting box at right.

S ELEVATION: 3 irregularly sized and disposed windows. Sash and case windows, with variety of small-pane glazing patterns, barred at ground floor. Grey slates to piend roof. Lead-flashed swept pyramidal roof to tower, with spiked finial, breaking main eaves line. Battered rendered wallhead stack to centre and brick shaft without can to left of S elevation.

INTERIOR: cast-iron balustrade to spiral stair. Main bedroom with ornamented cornice and ceiling rose, and vertical counterbalance-operated shutters to 3-light window. Console supporting beam in former kitchen.

Statement of Special Interest

The house originally formed the rear jamb of an L-plan building with the semi-octagonal stair tower in the re-entrant angle. The building was altered between 1853 and 1892. The semicircular coped rubble wall adjoining at SE corner and fronting High Street shows evidence of former window and door openings, and was probably the front wall of the earlier house. A retaining wall runs W and is adjoined to the SW corner of the house. The house was originally owned by the Buccleuch Estate, and apparently accommodated the Duke of Buccleuch's small private regiment, the "Duke's Canaries", hence the name "Militia House".

References

Bibliography

Wood's Map 1822. OS Map 1852-53. OS Map 1892-93. C McWilliam LOTHIAN (1980) p166.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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