Water Tower, Cemetery Road, Dalkeith

The building is a water tower located on Cemetery Road in Dalkeith, designed by James Leslie and dated 1879. It is an octagonal structure made of polychrome brick and has been converted into a dwelling. The tower consists of five stages, featuring a jettied timber upper stage. The main body is constructed of red brick, with cream brick detailing and ashlar dressings, including ashlar margins and raised bracketed cills. A band cornice separates the fifth stage from the bracketed balcony.

The base of the tower, or first stage, is supported by clasping buttresses and features a corbelled deep band course. On the southwest elevation facing Cemetery Road, there is a segmental-arched doorway with a two-leaf door, above which is an ashlar panel inscribed with "1879." The second, third, fourth, and fifth stages have full-height recessed panels edged with cream bricks on each elevation. The windows are square and irregularly placed plate glass, with some elevations being blank and others showing evidence of blocked larger openings. A modern balcony with a timber platform and decorative wrought-iron balustrade surrounds the replacement weather-boarded upper stage, which was formerly a tank-house. Some elevations have square and vertical slit modern windows.

The tower has deep eaves with a timber eaves band and an octagonal roof topped with a blind octagonal lantern and a weathervane. There are open-pedimented aediculed lucarnes on the northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest sides, and the roof is covered with grey slates.

The interior has not been seen.