Mayfield Lodge, 42 Eskbank Road, Dalkeith

Mayfield Lodge, located at 42 Eskbank Road in Dalkeith, is a villa built in the earlier to mid-19th century. It is two stories high and has three bays. The east elevation features stugged squared and coursed ashlar, while the other elevations are made of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The building has a base course, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course, with a decorative tablet above the center bay and raised margins.

On the east elevation facing Eskbank Road, there is a corniced doorpiece with foliated brackets, rosettes, and an angled tablet above. This area features a modern glazed door and a two-pane fanlight. To the left, there is a canted window at ground level, and the elevation includes a cornice, blocking course, and nook-shaft detail at the angles. The fenestration is regularly arranged, with taller windows on the ground floor. To the right, there is a later 19th-century single-storey, single-bay ashlar addition.

The north elevation has an ashlar addition attached at ground level to the left and center. The cornice and blocking course continue around the canted window at the center. There is a recessed bay to the right with a small intercepted window, and windows to the left and right on the first floor, as well as a window to the right on the ground floor.

On the south elevation, there is a glass house running south attached to the right, and a lean-to conservatory attached to the left. The wall inside the conservatory is rendered and painted, with a door to the left of center.

The west elevation features a window on the first floor and a lean-to with a glazed door to the right. There is a two-storey piended rubble wing attached across the rest of the elevation, slightly advanced to the right, with a boarded door and window to the left and a lean-to coal bunker to the right. The west and south elevations are fenestrated, and there is a stack below the ridge to the left of center on the west pitch.

The windows predominantly have a 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case style, with a 15-pane canted window featuring 10-pane sidelights on the north elevation. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are shouldered wallhead stacks at the center of the north and south elevations. A modern dormer window with a swept roof is located at ridge level on the west side, and some original cans remain.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of an ashlar coped rubble retaining wall, with pyramidal-capped corniced gatepiers. In the garden to the east, there is a sundial on a cast-iron barley sugar Corinthian column.