7-9 Eskbank Road, Dalkeith

7-9 Eskbank Road in Dalkeith is a two-storey, five-bay commercial building designed in the Venetian Renaissance style by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson in 1911. The building features an ashlar façade with a channelled finish at the ground level and a polished granite base up to the cill level on the west elevation, while the remaining elevations are made of squared and snecked rubble. A fretted band course runs between the floors, and there is a moulded cill course at the first floor. The cornice is dentilled and modillioned, and the ground floor openings have stylised voussoirs. The doors and first-floor windows are framed with architraves, and there is an eaves course on the other elevations.

On the west elevation facing Eskbank Road, the ashlar façade extends to the side elevations, which rise above the lower building to the left. The outer bays feature consoled and corniced doorpieces with semicircular-arched fanlights above the cornice. The panelled doors have circular details, with the right door (No 9) providing access to the first floor. The centre bays contain semicircular-arched windows, and the first floor has regular fenestration.

The east elevation consists of three bays and is adjoined by a modern single-storey block on the left and centre bays. There is a door with a six-pane fanlight on the main elevation to the left, with regular fenestration and a bipartite window to the right at ground level and in the outer bays at the first floor.

The north elevation is attached to the lower building at Nos 3 and 5 Eskbank Road. The south elevation has three irregularly sized and positioned windows, a stair window, and a blocked opening at ground level.

The building features sash and case windows, with a plate glass glazing pattern at ground level on the west elevation and a 12-pane glazing pattern elsewhere. The roof is a combination of piend and platform styles with swept eaves, and there are two corniced wallhead stacks on the south side, topped with red tiles.

Inside, there is an archway in the east wall, along with a panelled timber dado, a decorative timber fireplace, and doorpieces. The interior also includes a plaster moulded ceiling and a dentilled cornice.