Gothenburg Public House, 45 Buccleuch Street, Dalkeith

The Gothenburg Public House, located at 45 Buccleuch Street, Dalkeith, was designed by Charles Henry Greig and built in 1905-06. It is a two-storey, L-shaped building in the Arts and Crafts style, with a single-storey wing extending along Buccleuch Street, and a three-storey gable to Lothian Street. The building is harled with painted dressings, and has a deep base course up to windowsill level, with raised cills. Half-timbering details are incorporated into the gabled gableheads. Semicircular-arched windows are a prominent feature, with timber mullions and transoms.

The chamfered corner features a gabled bay with a broad semicircular-arched tripartite door. A bowed oriel window sits at the first floor, supported by Tuscan columns and creating a porch at ground level. A cornice with a corniced fascia band encircles the base of the building. There is a bracketed gablehead above the corner bay.

The South (Buccleuch Street) elevation has a semicircular-arched doorway at the centre, topped with a bracketed semicircular canopy and a fanlit door. Broad semicircular-arched windows are situated at ground level in the bays to the left and right. The first-floor fenestration is regular, topped by gabled dormerheads, with a narrower window and smaller gable in the centre. A later single bay wing extends to the left, featuring a semicircular-arched window and gablehead.

The East (Lothian Street) elevation contains a semicircular arch with a central blank panel and flanking Inglenook lights at ground level in the bay to the left. Two keystoned oculi are positioned at the first floor. To the right, a three-storey, two-bay gabled elevation rises with a corbelled chimneybreast rising from a corbelled panel at the first floor. A panelled door with a three-pane fanlight is flanked by a window in the bay to the right. A window and flanking two-leaf panelled door are found to the left of the left-hand bay. The first and second floors have regularly disposed fenestration. A continuous single-storey harled wall runs along the right side, remaining from a former neighbouring building.

The West elevation has an adjoined single-storey wing at ground level, with a semicircular-arched window to the gabled West elevation. A window is present at ground and first floor to the left, and a further window to first floor only.

Two advanced stacks are situated above the wing.

The North elevation is gabled and blank, with remains of a former neighbouring building attached.

The North and West rear elevations are fenestrated, and a later addition to the Northwest corner stands on cast-iron columns.

The building incorporates a variety of small-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in casement and top-hopper windows. Coloured glass detailing is used within two windows flanking the corner bay at ground level. The eaves overhang, and the slate roof sweeps down between gableheads. A wallhead stack is located to the left, and a gablehead stack is positioned to the right on the East elevation. Red tiles with scroll details finish the roof apexes.