Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

177 HIGH STREET, DALKEITH PARK HOUSELB24406

Status: Designated

Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Category
B
Date Added
18/10/1976
Local Authority
Midlothian
Planning Authority
Midlothian
Burgh
Dalkeith
NGR
NT 33372 67681
Coordinates
333372, 667681

Description

William Burn, circa 1830. 2-storey gabled asymmetric Jacobean-baronial house, now converted into flats. Single storey wing linking stable and coach house range at SW corner. Stugged ashlar; W and S elevations stugged sqared and coursed rubble. Droved chamfered reveals and deeply chamfered cills. Replacement concrete cills and lintels to enlarged windows. Base course. String course between ground and 1st floors. Slits or square blank panels to gableheads.

E ELEVATION: 5-bay: advanced gabled bays to centre and left of centre, slightly advanced gabled bay to outer right and recessed bay to outer left with re-entrant stair tower on return. Original main door (now blocked) with moulded surround and hoodmould over-stepping blank panel above in outer right bay. Canted bay window with blind strapworked parapet in centre bay; enlarged window at 1st floor. Doors slapped in former windows in bays flanking centre (No 1 to left and No 3 to right). Further door (No 2) in original opening on return of advanced centre bay to left below bracketted stack. Dormerheads in bays to outer left and inner right (now truncated). Regularly disposed fenestration. Circular tower, with four 4-pane slit windows, intercepts fenestrated return of outer bay; bay to left with blind window at 1st floor and lean-to block at ground clasping tower.

N ELEVATION: M-gabled to right with recessed bay to left. Canted bay window as above between 2 gabled bays; 2 windows at 1st floor with over-stepping string course. Dormerhead to fenestrated recessed bay.

W ELEVATION: 6-bay with lower recessed bay to inner right. Outer bays gabled; tall 18-pane window at ground floor and 1st floor window with over-stepping string course in outer left bay. Regularly disposed fenestration in remaining bays, predominantly replacements, with additional 8-pane replacement window to left of inner right bay.

S ELEVATION: single storey wing to left and modern porch (No 4) to right. Set-off wallhead stack intercepts dormerhead of bracketted window to left. Several windows to right.

Largely 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Gablet-coped skews, some with kneelers; bracketted skewputts, skewblocks to N. Corniced stacks. Conical roof to tower with eaves course and spike finial. Large grey slates. Some original rainwater goods, piercing string course.

INTERIOR: No 1 (1st floor flat): some sub-division of rooms; coved ceilings with plain cornices; marble mantlepiece; circular spoked ceiling-light in hall. No 3 (ground floor flat): several rooms retained with some sub-division to W; original moulded door surrounds and cornices.

COACH HOUSE: single storey with hayloft; same detailing as house. Converted to 3 garages to SE, and a dwelling (No 5) to SE. Gabled elevation projects beyond house to W with gabled former carriage arch (?) on N return. Semicircular coped rubble wall running W around garden adjoined to S.

Statement of Special Interest

Dalkeith Park House was designed as the residence of the Duke of Buccleuch's chamberlain, replacing the earlier Chamberlain's House, shown on Wood's Map 1822, which stood within the Duke's Gates. The Chamberlain, Robert Scott-Moncrieff, and his family took up residence in 1834. After the death of the Chamberlain, Cunningham-Scott, in circa 1918, the house was let from circa 1920s until it was converted into flats, with various alterations, in the 1960s (complete by 1967) by the Buccleuch Estate.

References

Bibliography

Wood's Map 1822. Plan and perspective elevation from Duke of Buccleuch's Collection of Drawings at Drumlanrig, Inventory No 49 37 (16), copy at NMRS 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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.

Images

There are no images available for this record, you may want to check Canmore for images relating to 177 HIGH STREET, DALKEITH PARK HOUSE

There are no images available for this record.

Search Canmore

Printed: 29/03/2024 11:51