Dalmeny House Stables, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh

Dalmeny House Stables, likely designed by William Wilkins around 1820, is a two-storey Tudor stable block originally arranged in a symmetrical U-plan, featuring a screen wall and a central gateway that completes the fourth side of the courtyard. The building is constructed from droved sandstone ashlar and includes pedimented gables, a base course, rectangular hoodmoulds, stone mullions, and crenellated parapets with moulded cornices.

The west courtyard range has a three-bay advanced central block with two-leaf timber Tudor-arch doors at ground level, above which are bipartite windows. A clock framed by incised cusping is centered in a false gablet above, with a later glazed canopy extending between the ground and first floor. This block is flanked by a four-bay section on the left, featuring bipartite windows in the left and outer right bays, with a door in the penultimate bay and a bipartite window above it. The mirrored block on the right has a stone infilled bipartite window in the outer right at the first floor and an infilled right half of a bipartite window in the penultimate bay to the left.

The south courtyard range consists of eight bays, including four Tudor-arch coach house arches on the left with two-leaf timber doors, two bipartite windows at the center, and two doors on the right, along with three widely spaced bipartite windows above. The north courtyard range mirrors the south courtyard range, with an additional bipartite window above the outer right coach house arch.

The screen wall is made of stugged coursers with coping and features two octagonal ashlar gatepiers topped with cornices, ogival dome caps, and finials. The rear elevations show random rubble on the original block and roughly tooled rubble on the extensions, which have droved and chamfered margins. There are additions on all three sides.

The windows are two-light timber sash and case types, with eight panes at ground level and six panes at the first floor. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods along with a variety of rendered, octagonal ashlar sandstone ridge stacks, which are coped with circular cans.