116, 118 and 118A High Street, Dalkeith

116, 118 and 118A High Street, Dalkeith is a three-storey, three-bay, symmetrical classical tenement with a shop at the ground floor which dates to around the earlier 19th century. At the rear of the tenement there is a two-storey addition and three-storey former warehouse both dating to around the mid-19th century. The tenement is sandstone ashlar with a base course, band course and plain frieze above. There is a cill course at the first and second floors and an eaves cornice and blocking course above which are continuous with the adjoining tenement at 112 and 114 High Street (see separate listing, LB2441). There is a pend at the outer left bay which leads to Robertson's Close.

The principal (northwest) elevation to the High Street has a painted shop front in the centre bay of the ground floor. The shop front has a central door and is flanked by plate glass windows. There is a door to the outer right bay with a two-pane fanlight above.

At the rear (southeast) elevation there is a two-storey coursed rubble addition with a lintel inscribed 'R.T 1844'. Joined to this addition at the south there is a three-storey gabled former warehouse now in residential use. This is built of coursed rubble with a brick chimney stack at the south gable and is painted at the ground floor. There are window openings in the northeast and southwest elevations.

The windows on the principal elevation are timber sash and case with a twelve-pane glazing pattern at the second floor and six-pane with plate glass lower sashes at the first floor. There are plate glass windows in the rear elevation of 116 and 118 and a non-traditional replacement glazing in 118A. 116 and 118 has coped skews and a gablehead chimney stack to the northeast. The roof is tiled in grey slates.

The interior of the ground floor shop at 118 High Street was partially seen in 2018. This has been comprehensively modernised in the late 20th /early 21st century.

To the rear of the building at Robertson's Close there is a single-storey and attic range which adjoins the three-storey former warehouse at 118A High Street. This range which dates to around the mid-19th century has been extensively altered in the 20th century.

In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: single-storey and attic rear range at Robertson's Close.