Waverley Cottage, 14 Park Road, Dalkeith

Waverley Cottage is a single-storey, symmetrical, villa-like outbuilding located at 14 Park Road, Dalkeith, built between around 1840 and 1854. The front features a centre door with three bays, where the outer bays project and have barge-boarding, while further single bays are set back. The central porch and detailing are made of dressed ashlar, while the rest of the structure is constructed from tooled snecked sandstone. The building has piended slate roofs with overhanging eaves and corniced ashlar stacks, and the windows are timber-framed sash and case.

The principal elevation facing the garden has an advanced gabled entrance porch, with flanking gabled bays that feature hoodmoulded bipartite windows. The bargeboards include scroll details with drop pendants and finials. At the rear, there is a central gabled two-bay section that is slightly advanced, with two further single bays set back.

The outbuilding, which serves as an ancillary structure, is located to the west of the main entrance gate. It has rubble walls with ashlar detailing and a slate lean-to roof. Near the house, there is a large door along with four additional doors, which may have once provided access for stabling and storage.

The forecourt is a section of courtyard from the entrance gates to the house, laid in brick. The boundary features corniced square-plan gatepiers with chamfered quoins at the carriage entrance to the northwest of the property on Park Road, along with an adjacent corniced pedestrian entrance. The ornate wrought iron gates have replaced earlier gates, which were possibly timber. A tall rubble wall surrounds the entire property, raised to the north and northeast, and topped with curved coping. There is a pedimented ashlar doorway to the west, which also serves as a carriage entrance. The wall continues along Waverley Road, showing changes in stonework in the southern section, possibly indicating past changes in the use of the grounds. To the south of the garden, the boundary wall has an opening at the eastern end and encloses a long, sweeping lawn that slopes down to the south. A large Cedar of Lebanon is situated beside the west pedestrian gate.