Description
Former Eskbank and Dalkeith Station, with platforms, foot bridge and road bridge in cutting to W.
STATION: Thomas Grainger and John Miller, 1847. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical double-pile Tudor former station building with recessed single storey gabled wings, now converted into flats. Stugged cream sandstone masonry. Cill course at ground on E, N and S elevations. String course above 1st floor on E and W elevations. Coped parapet to E and W elevations. Finely droved margin drafts and rybats. Chamfered reveals including cills.
E (STATION ROAD) ELEVATIONS: gabled centre bay slightly advanced with crenellated porch at ground; 4-centred-arched doorway, modern door and multi-pane fanlight; glazed arrowslits on returns in recessed panels, with parapet corbelled above; hoodmoulded bipartite window at 1st floor and blind arrowslit in gablehead. Bipartite windows to both floors in outer bays, hoodmoulded at ground. Window between left and centre bays at ground.
N ELEVATION: M-gabled. Left gable: 2 hoodmoulded bipartite windows at ground, and hoodmoulded window at centre to 1st floor. Right gable: gabled wing adjoined at ground; small opening to left at 1st floor. Wing: hoodmoulded window to E return; blocked door flanked by 2 windows to N elevation.
S ELEVATION: M-gabled. Hoodmoulded door, with 4-pane fanlight, to left of right gable. Hoodmoulded bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor between gables. Wing: hoodmoulded window to E return; 2-leaf modern door (No 6A), with slated canopy, to left and tripartite window at centre to S elevation.
W ELEVATION: wings advanced at each side. 5 2-storey bays. Door in bays to left and right of centre; windows in centre and outer bays, window at centre formerly door. Bipartite windows in centre and outer bays at 1st floor. N wing: hoodmoulded bipartite window to centre and door to right at ground; blocked narrow window in gablehead; S return blank, with wallhead angled up to W elevation. S wing: hoodmoulded bipartite window at centre; modern door with plate glass fanlight to left and square glazed opening (former ticket window) at centre to N return, with wallhead angled up to W elevation.
Sash and case windows, largely horizontal-pane in narrow lights, some 12-pane. Moulded gablet-coped skews. Corbelled coped gablehead stacks to N and S, raised with black brick. Grey slates. Some original cans. Rooflight to right on E pitch.
Foot bridge: on E-W axis across former railway line. Cast-iron lattice; timber walkway.
Road bridge: on E-W axis, to N of foot bridge; carries Lasswade Road over former railway line. Single span with segmental arch. Droved ashlar; brick arch ring and intrados. Band course. Saddleback coped parapet. Gabled building (roofless) adjoined to SE; door to S, window to W.
Platforms: stone platforms to E and W, runs between Lasswade Road and Bonnyrigg Road. Rubble staircases with concrete steps up from S; door and window under stairs to E, blocked door under stairs to W. Asbestos-roofed shelter to W.
Platforms: stone platforms to E and W, runs between Lasswade Road and Bonnyrigg Road. Rubble staircases with concrete steps up from S; door and window under stairs to E, blocked door under stairs to W. Asbestos-roofed shelter to W.