38 Eskbank Road, Dalkeith

38 Eskbank Road is a villa built in the earlier to mid-19th century. It is two stories high and originally had three bays, but a later addition has made it four bays and rectangular in shape. The east and north elevations are finished with stugged ashlar, while the south and west elevations are constructed of squared and snecked rubble. The building features a base course, eaves course, and raised margins, with nook-shaft detailing at the corners of the canted windows.

On the east elevation facing Eskbank Road, there is a pilastered doorpiece with a cornice and blocking course located in the bay to the left of the center. This doorpiece has a recessed margin and is fitted with a modern glazed door and a two-pane fanlight. The central bays have regular fenestration, while the outer bays are advanced, with the right bay being the addition. The outer right bay features a full-height canted window with a half-pitched roof, and there is a cornice above the ground floor window along with a cill course at the first floor. The outer left bay has a canted window with a cornice and blocking course at the ground floor, and a bracketed cornice above the window at the first floor.

The north elevation has three bays, with a pedimented bay advanced at the center. It includes bipartite windows, and a door has been inserted in the right light at the ground floor, while the outer bays have regular fenestration.

On the south elevation, there is cavetto corbelling supporting a substantial canted oriel window on the right at the first floor, along with windows at both the ground and first floors on the left.

The west elevation features a single-storey lean-to addition attached to the right of the center, with screen walls that break the eaves on the return. This elevation has a door to the north and three windows, along with a semicircular-arched window at the first floor to the right of center. There are two doors on the outer left, and the fenestration is irregularly sized and disposed.

The villa has a variety of eight and twelve-pane glazing patterns in its sash and case windows, with four-pane sidelights in the canted windows and fixed glazing in the semicircular-arched window. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a piended design, with original corniced square cans.

The boundary walls and gatepiers are made of rubble with ashlar flat coping. The gatepiers are chamfered and square with pyramidal caps, and there is a chamfered pedestrian entrance in the wall. A postbox marked "GR" is incorporated into the wall. There is a modern building located in the grounds to the north.