153-155 High Street, Dalkeith

153-155 High Street in Dalkeith is a three-storey, L-plan tenement building designed by Robert J Naismith in 1959. The structure features an asymmetric design with slightly taller recessed stair bays situated between a bay on the outer left and a four-bay block on the right. The eastern elevation is constructed of variegated cream sandstone random rubble, while the other elevations are harled. It includes ashlar dressings, raised narrow cills, an eaves course, and subtle keystone details above some windows. The door surrounds are roll-moulded, and the doors are boarded.

On the eastern elevation facing High Street, there is a tripartite window on each floor of the crow-stepped gabled bay on the outer left. Access to No 153 is via a door located in the right bay of the recessed stair bays, which also has two windows. The right block features three irregular bays at the ground level, with the door to No 155 positioned left of centre, flanked by a window on the left and a tripartite window on the right. The first and second floors have regular fenestration arranged in a 3-1 pattern.

The southern elevation, facing Hunt Close, consists of four bays. The outer right bay is blank rubble, and the bay to the right of centre is also blank. The two bays on the left display regular fenestration on each floor.

The western elevation includes a low two-storey contemporary harled and pantiled range that runs westward, adjoined to the gable end on the right. This side has regularly disposed fenestration across four bays on the left.

The northern elevation is joined to Nos 161 and 163 High Street by the remaining gable wall of a previously neighbouring building. The building features a variety of small-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows, predominantly with 12-pane glazing on the eastern elevation. Canopied stacks are present on the right side of both the eastern and western pitches, and the roof is covered with grey slates.