3 High Street, Dalkeith

Circa 1800. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house with 2 shops at ground. Squared and coursed rubble to E elevation; remaining elevations random rubble. Droved ashlar dressings. Raised cills and quoins. Base course.

E (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: late 19th century shop front to right (continuing across No 5 High Street) with recessed door (No 3) to left; boarded apron and iron canopy fixtures. Late 19th century Art Nouveau detailed, taller shop front to left with recessed door at centre (No 1 High Street); multi-pane fanlight to glazed door with flowing tracery detail at top; geometric tiled floor to vestibule and timber shop gate; dentilled cornice, moulded flowing curvillinear stem detail to fascia; wrought-iron bracket fixture to left. Regular fenestration at 1st floor, close under eaves.

S (OLD EDINBURGH ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay corniced fascia continuing from E elevation and detailed similarly. 2 plate glass display windows in right bay; left bay painted with margined entrance (No 1 Old Edinburgh Road) to house passage. 2 windows to right and left of centre at 1st floor. Attic window off-centre to left, with wrought-iron window guard.

W ELEVATION: window at 1st floor in narrow bay to left. Later piended block adjoined to remaining bays.

N ELEVATION: adjoined to Nos 5 and 7 High Street (see separate listing).

Variety of small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in largely sash and case windows. Rooflight to E. Coped skews and crowstepped stack to S. Grey slates.