Water Tower, Cemetery Road, Dalkeith is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 October 1976. Water tower. 2 related planning applications.
Water Tower, Cemetery Road, Dalkeith
- WRENN ID
- gilded-newel-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1976
- Type
- Water tower
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Leslie, dated 1879. Octagonal polychrome brick water tower, converted to a dwelling. 5-stage with jettied timber upper stage. Red brick; cream brick detailing and ashlar dressings. Ashlar margins and raised bracketted cills. Band cornice between 5th stage and bracketted balcony.
Base of tower (1st stage), with clasping buttresses, corbelled at deep band course. Segmental-arched doorway to SW (Cemetery Road) elevation, with 2-leaf door; ashlar panel inscribed "1879" above. Full-height recessed panels to 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th stages, edged with cream bricks, to each elevation. Square, irregularly disposed plate glass windows; some elevations blank and some with evidence of blocked larger openings. Modern balcony with timber platform and decorative wrought-iron balustrade encircling replacement weather-boarded upper stage (former tank-house); square and vertical slit modern windows to some elevations.
Deep eaves with timber eaves band. Octagonal roof with blind octagonal lantern and weathervane.
Open-pedimented aediculed lucarnes to NW, NE, SE and SW. Grey slates.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Detailed Attributes
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