Dalkeith Lodge, Newmills Road, Dalkeith

Dalkeith Lodge is a mid-19th century asymmetrical gothic gateway and adjoining three-storey and attic lodge tower, situated on Newmills Road, Dalkeith. The construction utilizes stugged squared and snecked masonry with ashlar dressings. A string course runs between the ground and first floors on the lodge. Cusped windows feature double-chamfered rectangular margins and hoodmoulds, and decorative wrought-iron brackets adorn the doors and gates. Gable, gablet, and merlon detailing incorporates saw-tooth coping.

The gateway’s north (Newmills Road) elevation features a pointed-arched entrance flanked by sturdy two-leaf timber gates; the north face of the gates has recessed panels, while the south face is studded with remaining iron spikes. A lop-sided gable with large crowsteps and steep gablet coping sits above the gateway, with a coped panel positioned above it. A moulded, pointed-arched doorway, dwarfed in scale, is situated to the right of the gate, with a recessed panelled door. The south elevation of the gateway is buttressed, with a waved parapet. A recessed segmental-arched doorway with a studded door and iron slots for a bar is located to the left, with rainwater spouts positioned above the gateway and doorway.

The lodge tower, on the north elevation, is slightly battered at its base and features an arrowslit window to the left at ground level. A string course runs above the ground floor, stepping over an arrowslit stair window to the right. Windows are present at the centre of the first and second floors, with another arrowslit stair window positioned between them. A corbelled parapet is on the left side, while a substantial coped pinnacle stack rises from the northeast corner. The northwest corner is crenellated, with coped merlons, and a slit is present in the gablehead behind the parapet. The south elevation is asymmetrically gabled, with a bipartite window featuring round-arched lights and an oculus above, slightly left of centre, at ground level, beneath a pointed-arched hoodmould. A bracketed two-face canted oriel window, with an ashlar half-piend roof, is positioned to the right on the first floor. A window is located to the left of centre on the second floor. Another slit exists in the gablehead. A coped stack with chamfered angles sits on the southeast corner, subtly altering the gable’s asymmetry, intercepting the skew. A single-storey, coped wall extends to the left.

The east elevation shows a door to the left. The west elevation is blank. Coped walls running west adjoin to the left and right, creating a court with a low wall running north to the right. A single-storey, south-facing lean-to abuts the policy wall to the left; the piended west wall forms the left side of the court, with doors to the left and right and a window at the centre, all now concreted. There is evidence of a former lean-to abutting a coped wall to the right.

The windows are currently boarded. Overhanging eaves are present. Saw-tooth skews with gablets are located at the apex, and an iron finial adorns the south gable. The roof is covered in grey slates, and some original rainwater goods remain.

A squared and snecked rubble wall, with ashlar coping detail to both east and west, extends from the building. A crenellated square turret with coped merlons and a slit is present on the east side.