Abattoir, Home Farm, Dalkeith

Home Farm Dalkeith features a range of farm buildings from different periods, located on steeply sloping ground.

The Stable and Hayloft, likely built in the mid-18th century, is a two-storey rectangular block with a gabled roof. It is constructed of harled pointed rubble with ashlar dressings and has a base course. The east elevation has five bays, with a round-arched doorway at the center that includes impost blocks and a small-pane fanlight. There are windows in the flanking bays at ground level and doors in the outer bays, although the outer right door has been blocked and converted into a window. Above, there are hayloft windows at the center and to the left, with a hayloft door to the right. A forestair leads to the hayloft door on the north gable. Attached to the south gable are a low cartshed and a granary. The west elevation features square windows for the stables and arrow slits for the hayloft above, with a small-pane glazing pattern in the top-hopper windows. The roof is covered with purple slates, and there are crowsteps and beak skewputts.

The Cartshed and Granary, dating from the mid to late 19th century, consists of a three-bay cartshed with a low granary added later in the attic above, accessible via a forestair addition at the rear (west elevation). This structure is made of rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered arrises to the low segmental arches on the east elevation and harled at the rear. There is also a later single-storey addition made of red sandstone rubble with a piend roof, located to the south below the gablehead stack. The roof has ashlar coped skews and grey slates, along with skylights.

The Abattoir, possibly built in the late 18th century, has a square plan and is two storeys high, situated at the north end of the range at a lower level. It is constructed of rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings, featuring a door at ground level on the north side and another door to the upper storey from higher ground on the south side. Windows are present on each floor, and the building has a piend roof with a ventilator at the center, covered with grey slates.