Ardchattan, 12 Park Road, Dalkeith

Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay villa built between circa 1840 and 1854. Centre-doored 3-bay front (SE elevation) with pilastered ashlar doorpiece; slightly advanced bipartite window to left; canted box window to right; all with cornice and connecting string course. Square and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings including raised eaves course. Piended slate roof; corniced wallhead ashlar stacks with circular clay cans. Timber sash and case windows; plate glass to lower sash, multi-pane above to front; 8-pane to rear including large stair window. Panelled timber door with decorative fanlight. Plain NE gable wall; 20th century single storey, flat-roofed addition to rear. Low, 2-storey, L-plan former servants' wing attached to SW, pitched and piended slate roofs, enlarged openings to front; doors and windows to rear; gable end stack.

INTERIOR: notable features include glazed vestibule with tiled floor, oak floor to hall; stair opposite entrance with coloured glass in stair window; 2 large principal rooms to front with plastered ceilings including decorative Adamesque design to drawing room (SW room).

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: tall rubble wall to Park Road with curved coping. Tall, square-plan ashlar gatepiers with chamfered corners and pyramidal coping stones to timber carriage and pedestrian gate. Rubble walls also bound the garden to NE, SW and SE.