27 Park Road, Dalkeith

27 Park Road in Dalkeith is a mid to late 19th-century, two-storey asymmetrical gabled villa constructed from squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The building features a base course, chamfered margins that stop at the cill of the ground floor windows, and raised cills. The north and east elevations have painted margins.

On the east elevation facing Park Road, the villa has a three-bay design with the left bay advanced. At the center, there is a three-stage canted entrance tower with a columned, keystoned, and corniced doorpiece that includes foliated spandrels and waterleaf capitals. The recessed semicircular-arched doorway has a deep-set panelled door and a plate glass fanlight above. Each stage of the tower features a window on the exposed faces, with three windows at the third stage. Above the third stage, there is a parapet adorned with a decorative cast-iron balustrade. The advanced gabled bay on the left has a canted window at the ground level with a cornice and blocking course, and a bipartite window at the first floor. The gabled bay on the right also has a bipartite window at the ground level and a window at the first floor.

The north elevation consists of three bays, with a canted window featuring a copper-flashed half-pitched roof in the advanced gabled bay to the right, along with a window at the first floor. Dormer-headed windows break the eaves in the left and center bays, and there is a bipartite window between the bays at ground level. A modern harled single-storey L-plan range is attached to the right, featuring a modern sun-porch in the re-entrant angle.

The south elevation has a window to the left at ground level, with the angle to the left chamfered at ground. There is a modern single-storey range attached to the left, with a window above on the recessed gable.

The west elevation has later and modern additions at ground level, with a window to the right of the recessed gable. Wallhead stacks are present to the left and right.

The villa features a 2 and 4-pane glazing pattern in its sash and case windows, coped skews, moulded beak skewputts, and finial blocks at the gableheads. Ashlar wallhead stacks are located to the north and south of the tower, and the roof is covered with purple-grey slates. Some original rainwater goods are still in place.

Inside, the vestibule floor is laid with encaustic tiles, and there is a cast-iron balustrade leading to a continuous stair. Each floor of the tower contains a room.