Town Lodge, Duke's Gate, High Street, Dalkeith

DUKE'S GATE: James Adam, 1794. Gateway to Dalkeith Estate from the High Street. Four square piers linked by screen wall, gateway at centre. Ashlar. Base course. Fluted frieze, cornice and blocking course to piers; surmounted by iron tripod lamp bases. Two-leaf cast-iron gates, arch-in-grid and spearheaded. Lower walls flanking outer piers, curved to south, each with pedestrian gate. Adjoined to lodge to east.

TOWN LODGE: James Adam, 1794, extended and re-roofed in second half of 19th century. Single-storey, three-bay lodge. Ashlar. Base course. String course below eaves level to form blocking course. Timber eaves course. Broad raised cills. Pebble-dashed extension.

NORTH (PRINCIPAL, POLICIES) ELEVATION: centre bay advanced and flat-roofed; boarded door at centre, narrow windows flanking. Window in bays to left and right. Screen wall of gates adjoined to right.

WEST (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: flat-roofed advanced panel to left, with bipartite window and narrow windows on return. Pebble-dashed extension to right with window and small window flanking to right.

Variously sized small-pane glazing patterns in sash and case windows. Grey slates to piend and platform roof. Harled stacks below ridge to north and east pitches.

Rubble wall with garden door adjoined to right to east. Lean-to rubble cartshed to left, adjoined to rubble wall on east-west axis. Boundary wall running south adjoined to left to south.

ESTATE WALLS: sandstone rubble, semicircular coped. Running south from south elevation of Lodge, following corner of Musselburgh Road, incorporating 1 and 3 Musselburgh Road (see listed building LB24445) and around Estate. Rubble coped wall to left of Lodge, within estate, running east to meet main policy wall.