Eskgrove House, Inveresk Village

The Eskgrove Dovecot is a villa dating from around 1740, with additions made in the 19th century. It is a 2-storey and basement building with 5 bays, constructed from sandstone rubble with lined and pointed joints, and ashlar dressings. The building features a cavetto cornice and rusticated quoins, with chamfered arrises to the basement and 1st floor windows.

The south elevation has a shallow, canted doorway added around 1800, with a cornice and leaded piend roof, and a pedimented door bearing a heraldic crest. A flat-roofed porch, also from the earlier 19th century, was added at the head of the stone steps with trellised panels and a canopy, and includes a pair of doors and wrought-iron railings. Corniced windows are found in the remaining bays on both the ground and 1st floors, with basement windows on the canted sides of the entrance bay and in the outer bays.

The north elevation features a flat-roofed rectangular stairblock projecting at the centre, with a tripartite window inserted, and includes a more recent porch. A late 19th century, flat-roofed projection extends the full height to the outer right. The left side has two bays with regular fenestration on both floors, and piended dormer windows with slate hanging.

The east elevation has an earlier 19th century, corniced rectangular projection at ground level, with a tripartite window and a parapet, along with a 1st floor window to the left. The west elevation has a 19th century conservatory addition on a rubble base with a panelled base course and decorative cast-iron ridge ornament, with two 1st floor windows.

A variety of glazing patterns are used in the sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and features panelled and corniced ashlar ridge stacks with retained cans. Lead gutters flank the main doorway.

The interior has been largely altered, although the stairwell remains, retaining a bull-nosed moulding to the stair and a decorative wrought-iron balustrade. Fielded panelling from the 18th century is present in the 1st floor rooms, along with bolection moulded chimneypieces.

A dovecot, likely built in the later 17th century, is located nearby and is in poor condition. It is a 2-storey lectern dovecot constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and two rat courses. It has coped skews with kneelers, and a door on the south elevation which has an oeil-de-boeuf window below the eaves. The dovecot is currently roofless (as of 1989), and contains 150 nesting boxes in the lower storey and 131 in the upper.

Retaining walls constructed of heavily pointed sandstone rubble, with ashlar coping to the roadside, are present, along with corniced, column gatepiers made of ashlar and topped with ball finials on the south drive.