3 High Street, Dalkeith

3 High Street in Dalkeith is a house dating from around 1800, featuring two storeys and an attic with three bays, as well as two shops on the ground floor. The eastern elevation is made of squared and coursed rubble, while the other elevations are constructed from random rubble, with droved ashlar dressings, raised cills, quoins, and a base course.

On the eastern elevation facing High Street, there is a late 19th-century shop front on the right that extends across No 5 High Street, with a recessed door to the left (No 3). This shop front has a boarded apron and iron canopy fixtures. To the left is a taller shop front, also from the late 19th century, designed in an Art Nouveau style. This shop front features a recessed door at the center (No 1 High Street) with a multi-pane fanlight above, showcasing flowing tracery detail. Inside, there is a geometric tiled floor in the vestibule and a timber shop gate. The fascia has a dentilled cornice and a moulded curvilinear stem detail, with a wrought-iron bracket fixture on the left. The first floor has regular fenestration that is positioned close under the eaves.

The southern elevation, facing Old Edinburgh Road, has a two-bay corniced fascia that continues from the eastern elevation and is similarly detailed. It includes two plate glass display windows in the right bay, while the left bay features a painted margined entrance (No 1 Old Edinburgh Road) leading to a passage. There are two windows on the first floor, one to the right and one to the left of the center, and an off-centre attic window to the left, which is protected by a wrought-iron window guard.

The western elevation has a window at the first floor in a narrow bay to the left, and there is a later piended block that is attached to the remaining bays.

The northern elevation is joined to Nos 5 and 7 High Street, which are listed separately. The building features a variety of small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns, primarily in sash and case windows. There is a rooflight on the eastern side, with coped skews and a crowstepped stack on the southern side, all covered with grey slates.