Hobart House, 19 Abbey Road, Dalkeith

Hobart House is a villa dating from the later 19th century, situated on Abbey Road in Dalkeith. It is an asymmetrical, two-storey building with gabled elevations. The east elevation is constructed of squared and snecked stugged ashlar, while the remaining elevations are of squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Chamfered reveals are stopped before the cill, and chamfered cills are present. Deep, overhanging eaves are punctuated by cusped kingpost bargeboarding on the dormerheads and gableheads of the east, west, and south elevations.

The three-bay east (Abbey Road) elevation features an advanced gabled bay at the centre, where the corners are corbelled to form a square at the gablehead. A tall doorway is located on the north return, featuring a corbel course that continues as a hoodmould stepped over a moulded panel. A panelled door is set within the opening. A four-light window is situated at ground level to the east, and a bipartite window is located on the first floor. A gabled bay to the left has an advanced window panel set off at the first floor, with a tall bipartite window at ground level and a single window at the first floor. A dormerheaded bipartite window breaks the eaves in the bay to the outer right, flanked by two small windows at ground level.

The south (Newbattle Road) elevation also has three bays. The outer bays are gabled, with bipartite windows at the first floor. On the right, a canted window is present at ground level, and a tripartite window is incorporated into an advanced panel at ground level in the bay to the left; both features have eaves cornices and half-piend roofs. A dormerheaded window is located at the centre of the first floor.

The west elevation presents three bays; the gabled bay to the right is blank. A garden door, previously a window, is situated at the centre. A window is present at ground level in the bay to the left, and dormerheaded windows break the eaves at the first floor.

The north elevation also has three bays. An advanced, fenestrated gable is located to the left, adjoined to the right by a steeply pitched, lean-to block with a small slit window facing north. A recessed kingpost gable is at the centre, with a bipartite window on the first floor and a moulded panel above in the gablehead. The gable to the right is blank; a lean-to porch is adjoined at ground level to the centre and left and connects to a lean-to on the return of the left bay.

The windows are largely fitted with plate glass in sash and case surrounds, with three panes in the taller ground floor windows. Truncated ashlar stacks are present on the gableheads, and an original coped and fluted stack is located on the right gable of the north elevation. The roof is covered with purple slates, and original rainwater goods are retained.

The property is enclosed by semicircular coped rubble boundary walls, which are lower on the Abbey Road side, featuring a post box marked "VR" in the southeast corner. Pyramidal-capped stugged ashlar gatepiers support decorative wrought-iron gates. Modern outbuildings are situated to the northwest of the grounds.