198 High Street, Dalkeith is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 1992.

198 High Street, Dalkeith

WRENN ID
muffled-frieze-thistle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 1992
Address
198 High Street, Dalkeith, EH22 1AZ
OS grid reference
NT 333 675
Coordinates
55.89615, -3.06712
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

196 High Street in Dalkeith is a three-storey, 16-bay symmetrical tenement designed by Thomas Aikman Swan around 1935. The building features random rubble construction with a harled east elevation and ashlar dressings. The door surrounds are roll-moulded, and broad lintels are present throughout.

On the west elevation facing High Street, the entrance is located in the slightly advanced inner fifth bays from both the left and right, which are topped with shaped Dutch-style gables, scroll skewputts, and a slit in the gablehead. The outer gables are also slightly advanced and consist of two bays each. The inner third and fourth bays feature swept dormerheads. The fenestration is regularly arranged with various sizes of windows, including two tripartite windows at the ground floor in the central four bays.

The east elevation has a similarly regular arrangement of windows. The north elevation is blank, while the south elevation shares a mutual gable with Nos 190-194 High Street, which is listed separately.

The sash and case windows have 12 and 16-pane glazing patterns. The steeply pitched roof is covered with grey slates, and the ridge line steps up over the central six bays. The gablehead features five regularly spaced ridge stacks with canopied cans, and there are no skews on the main gables.

Local climate

198 High Street, Dalkeith 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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