Dalriada House, 18 Ancrum Road, Dalkeith

Dalriada House is an asymmetrical villa dated 1884. The building is constructed of stugged squared and snecked masonry with ashlar dressings, featuring a base course. The east (entrance) elevation has three bays, highlighted by a consoled and corniced doorpiece with a bolection moulded doorway, raised surround, panelled door, and plate glass fanlight. A bipartite window is located on the ground and first floors to the right, and above it is a gabled dormer window with a finial. An arrowslit window is set into the asymmetrically gabled bay to the left, with a moulded course stepping over a moulded panel between the floors, aligned with an oriel window and the doorpiece cornice.

The south elevation has two bays, with a chamfered corner bay to the right. A window is situated on the chamfered angle on the ground floor, while a turreted tripartite oriel window sits above with machicolated eaves, a moulded gutter, a conical roof, and an iron finial. An advanced tripartite window with cornicing is centrally located on the ground floor, with windows on the return, and a pierced parapet with two ball finials above. A tripartite window is on the first floor, alongside a flattened-gabled dormer window with a stepped tripartite window with segmental arched lights. A gabled bay to the left features a finial, a corniced canted window with a half-piend and platform roof covered in fishscale slates and brattishing, a tripartite window on the first floor, and a window in the gablehead. The inscription "1884" is inscribed on a moulded panel above a hoodmould.

The west elevation is M-gabled. The left gable has a window to the right on the ground floor, and windows to the left and right on the first floor; one window to the right is etched with a coloured border. A single-storey gabled service wing is adjoined to the left, with a window in its gabled bay facing south. The right gable has a lean-to glasshouse, and a glazed door provides access inside.

The north (Ancrum Road) elevation is three bays, with the central bay raised to a square tower boasting fishscale slates and an iron finial. Leaded tripartite stair windows are situated between the ground and first floors, with a further leaded stair window above, and a moulded panel above. An asymmetrically gabled bay to the left has an intercepted window to the right at ground level, and a window to the left on the first floor. A window is placed on the ground and first floors in the bay to the right, topped by a gabled dormer window. A rendered and lined addition is adjoined to the left and centre at ground level, with a door to the east and two windows facing north. A gabled single-storey service wing is adjoined to the right, featuring a door at centre, flanked by two windows to the left, and a coal hatch and boarded door to the right, with a gablehead stack to the left.

The building utilizes a plate glass glazing pattern in sash and case windows, with patterned leaded glass in the ground floor window of the bay to the right on the east elevation. There are overhanging eaves, coped gablehead stacks to the east, west, and north, and original rainwater goods. Boundary walls are constructed of semicircular coped rubble, incorporating three pyramidal-capped, corniced, chamfered square piers.