19 Edinburgh Road, Dalkeith

Dated 1846, 19 Edinburgh Road is a two-storey and attic villa set in a residential area. The front (south) elevation is finely stugged ashlar stone, while the remaining elevations are of squared and snecked rubble, with ashlar dressings. A base course, eaves cornice, and blocking course run along the south elevation, with slightly raised margins and angle margins on the south and west elevations.

The south elevation is the principal facade, featuring a corniced and moulded door surround with strapwork ornament above, bearing the monogram "AM" and the inscription "1846" at the centre. This leads to a panelled door with a two-pane fanlight. Canted windows are present in the outer bays at ground floor level, each with moulded surrounds, a cornice, and a parapet with pierced semicircular ornament in the coping. The first-floor windows are regularly spaced.

The west elevation has windows to the left and right at ground floor, with a window centrally placed at first floor and a small attic window above. The north (Edinburgh Road) elevation has a stair window at the centre, flanked by slit windows, one of which has been blocked. Three slit windows are positioned at ground floor level. Regular fenestration is found in the outer bays. Metal plaques are affixed below the stair window: one signed "Alan S Heriot 1963," and another bearing the inscription "Alexander Mitchell, First Provost of Dalkeith."

The east elevation includes a small attic window. A low, two-storey service block adjoins the building to the right. There is a modern door to the left of the recessed south elevation, with a wide window to the right and two windows at first floor. The gabled east elevation of the service block is blank. A blank gabled elevation projects to the north, with a window on the ground and first floors on both the west and east returns.

The windows are largely fitted with plate glass in sash and case style. The canted windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern with eight-pane side lights, while the slit windows retain a two-pane glazing pattern. Coped skewes are visible, and corniced stacks divide the flues of the house stacks on the gableheads. The roof is covered with grey slates.

Ashlar coped rubble boundary walls enclose the property. Corniced, painted ashlar gatepiers are linked by a cast-iron fleur-de-lis overthrow, with a simple wrought-iron pedestrian gate, located to the northwest. Low walls connect the east gatepier and the northwest corner of the north wing, and another low wall adjoins the west gatepier. Another ashlar and brick wall with a garden door shields lean-to outbuildings behind the east elevation of the southeast wing.