Gateway, Dark Walk, Dalkeith House is a Grade A listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Gateway and walls.

Gateway, Dark Walk, Dalkeith House

WRENN ID
stranded-joist-kestrel
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Gateway and walls
OS grid reference
NT 338 676
Coordinates
55.89749, -3.05957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The gateway at Dark Walk, Dalkeith House, dates from the 18th century. It features a depressed-arched design with wrought-iron gates and low walls that curve slightly to the east, truncated at both ends. The gateway is topped with decorative scroll-work and includes two-leaf gates. The walls are made of rubble with a flat ashlar coping, and there are dies flanking the gateway. Tall wrought-iron spearhead railings extend continuously from the gateway.

Local climate

Gateway, Dark Walk, Dalkeith House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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