Cartshed Range, 40 Ironmills Road, Dalkeith

The Cartshed Range at 40 Ironmills Road in Dalkeith is an early 19th-century, two-storey structure featuring Gothick details. It includes a cartshed with a dwelling on the first floor to the north, alongside a single-storey and loft range to the south, and a transverse single-storey cottage range adjoining to the west. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, with chamfered margins, droved quoins, and rybats.

On the east elevation, the cartshed has a five-bay layout (three bays in the centre and two on the sides). There is a door at the first floor in the bay to the right of the centre, accessed by a quarter-turn stone forestair. The first floor features pointed-arched windows in the centre and outer bays, while there is a blind lancet topped by a blind half-vesica in the bay to the left of centre. Ground-level ventilation openings are designed as half-vesicas, surmounted by open lancets in the left and centre bays. To the left is a lower four-bay stable (two bays in the centre and two on the sides), which has windows at ground level.

The north elevation is gabled with a three-bay layout. It features a door in the right bay, a window in the centre, and a small blind half-vesica in the left bay at ground level. The first floor has blocked lancets, paired in the centre.

The south elevation shows the end gable of the former stable range on the outer right, with a window to the left at ground level and another window in the centre at the first floor. The former cottage and stable range to the left includes two doors, one to the left and one to the left of centre, each with a ventilation slit to the right. There is also a door to the right, flanked by a window on the left.

On the west elevation, there is a window at ground level on the cottage gable, a garage door to the right, a large modern plate glass window at the centre, and a door to the left on the return elevation. The stable elevation to the right has two doors. The four-bay cartshed features low pointed-arched cart-arches that are open in the centre bays, with regular fenestration at the first floor. There are five blind lancets with half-vesicas above, and below in the spandrels, dividing the bays.

The building displays a variety of small-pane glazing patterns in several replacement windows. Coped skews are present on the north side of the cartshed, the south side of the stable, and the west side of the cottages. There is a stack on the north gable and another to the south of the centre of the cartshed roof, with replacement stacks on the west gable and to the west of the centre of the cottage roof. The south gable of the stable features a truncated block, and the roof is covered with grey slates.