17-19 Croft Street, Dalkeith

17-19 Croft Street is an early to mid-19th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay house that may have been raised from a single-storey cottage and is now subdivided. The building is constructed of rubble, with the south elevation featuring random and heavily pointed stonework at the ground level and squared and coursed stone at the first floor, while the remaining elevations are random. It has finely droved rybats.

On the south elevation facing Croft Street, the door for No 19 is located at the center and features a two-pane fanlight above it. To the left, there is a full-height canted window in the bay. The remaining bays have regular fenestration. The outer bays have two slate-hung keel-shaped dormers, each with Y-tracery glazing patterns in the sash windows and short spike finials.

The northeast elevation has a forestair and harled porch for No 17, topped with a cat-slide roof in the center bay, which is formed from the stair block due to the subdivision. There is a modern door on the west return and a window to the north. The outer bays have regular fenestration at both the ground and first floors, with a lean-to addition in the left bay at ground level.

The west elevation is gabled and features a blind window to the right at the first floor. The east elevation is adjoined to Nos 21 and 23 Croft Street, which are listed separately.

The building largely features a 12-pane glazing pattern in the sash and case windows, with an 8-pane pattern in the sidelights of the canted window. There is a flat-roofed dormer window to the right at the rear, coped skews, lead coping on the blocking course of the canted window, coped ashlar stacks, grey slates, and a moulded eaves gutter.