172 High Street, Dalkeith

The Coach and Horses Public House, located at 168 High Street in Dalkeith, is a mid-19th century, three-storey, four-bay tenement. The building features a shop on the left and the public house on the right at ground level. The west elevation is constructed of stugged ashlar, while the north and south elevations are harled, and the east elevation is made of rubble with ashlar dressings. There are band courses between the floors and a cavetto eaves course. Some cill and rybat repairs can be seen at the first floor. A two-storey modern addition to the public house projects from the southwest corner.

On the west elevation facing High Street, there is a basket-arched pend entrance between the central bays with a two-leaf door. The door to the public house is located in the bay to the right of the center, accompanied by a broad multi-pane public house window to the right and in the adjacent bay. A door is situated between the left bays, with late 19th-century shop windows flanking the bays to the left of center and the outer left. The fenestration on the first and second floors is regularly disposed, with taller windows on the first floor. A public house sign hangs between the right bays at the first floor.

The east elevation features two stair windows at the center above the pend, with a window in the left bay. To the right, there is a two-storey harled piend-roofed addition with a tall wallhead stack to the north. An earlier, lower two-storey, three-bay gabled block runs east and is adjoined to the left. This block has heavy cement repointing to the stugged rubble, with ashlar dressings and coped skews. It features two bipartite windows at the ground floor to the north, a rendered wallhead stack, a small window at the center to the south, and a window to the left facing east, along with a gablehead stack.

The north elevation is blank. The windows have a 12-pane sash and case glazing pattern. The building has coped skews, some of which are made of concrete, and replacement gablehead stacks and a ridge stack to the left of center. The roof is covered with purple slates.

Inside the Coach and Horses vestibule, there is a timber screen featuring late 19th-century decorative stained glass panels.