Monkwood, 42 Main Street, Newtongrange

Monkwood, located at 42 Main Street in Newtongrange, is a symmetrical terrace of six two-storey, two-bay cottages built in 1872. The central cottages, numbered 39 and 40, project both to the front and rear. The cottages are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring decorative brickwork in contrasting yellow brick, including long and short quoins, surrounds, a nailhead band course, and diaper patterns. Each cottage has gabled dormers at the front and rear, and there are narrow gardens both in front and at the back. The terrace is surrounded by modern cast-iron railings and a low brick wall.

The west (front) elevation has a replacement panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight and a flanking bipartite window. Above each door is a datestone from 1872, although the one for No 37 has been replaced. The bipartite gabled dormers break the eaves and are centered above the ground floor windows, with yellow brick diaper patterns in the gableheads. There is also a plaque with an effaced inscription on No 42.

The north elevation has not been seen since 1999.

The east (rear) elevation features a modern flush door and two windows for each cottage at ground level. A gabled dormer window breaks the eaves, with flanking small two-light windows below the eaves on the first floor. There are three projecting brick chimney breasts, each with two circular cans in the stacks.

The south elevation includes a projecting chimney breast and a gablehead chimney. The front predominantly has replacement eight-pane windows, while the rear has twelve-pane and two-pane windows, all with concrete lintels. The roof is gabled with purple-grey slate, timber bargeboards, and overhanging bracketed eaves. The roofline is raised for Nos 39 and 40, featuring brick gableheads and mutual stacks, which have mostly been rebuilt, along with circular clay cans.

The interiors have not been seen since 1999.