14 Newbattle Road, Dalkeith

Dated 1869. 2-storey, with 1st floor breaking eaves, 3-bay villa. N and E elevations stugged squared and snecked rubble; ashlar dressings. Base course. Stop-chamfered margins. Chamfered cills. Overhanging eaves, exposed rafters.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: door at centre, with raised surround; panelled door and plate glass fanlight; consoled cornice and fluted deep blocking course above, forming apron to window at 1st floor; unusual shouldered gablehead stack, with bracketted cornice, to finialed dormerhead above. Full-height canted window in bay to left, breaking eaves in corblled gablehead; gabled roof with common ridge line; advanced panel detail between floors; panel in gablehead. Dormerheaded full-height advanced panel in bay to right; bipartite window at ground and 1st floors.

N (NEWBATTLE ROAD) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled bay advanced to left; full-height canted window, corbelled at gablehead, with gabled roof advanced from main roof; advanced panel detail between floors; panel in gablehead inscribed "1869". Narrow bipartite window at ground at centre. Bipartite window at ground and 1st floors in bay to right, dormerheaded at 1st floor.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled bay advanced to right; tripartite window at ground, bipartite window at 1st floor. Stair window at centre; modern lean-to garden shed adjoined to W return at ground. Window out-of-line to left at ground in bay to left; dormerheaded window at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: single storey service wing adjoined at ground; window to centre and right to W; former window to N, intercepted by adjoining modern garage, advanced to N.

Plate glass glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Coped shouldered stack to re-entrant angle to N, gablehead stack to W and ridge stack to centre of S roof. Purple slates. Some original cans. Original rainwater goods.

Low saddleback coped ashlar wall, semicircular coped rubble boundary wall; corniced gatepiers.