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Latitude: 55.894 / 55°53'38"N
Longitude: -3.0717 / 3°4'17"W
OS Eastings: 333077
OS Northings: 667277
OS Grid: NT330672
Mapcode National: GBR 60Z9.S0
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.S3HY
Plus Code: 9C7RVWVH+H8
Entry Name: 37, 39 High Street, Dalkeith
Listing Name: 37 and 39 High Street
Listing Date: 9 March 1992
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360301
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24382
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360301
Location: Dalkeith
County: Midlothian
Town: Dalkeith
Electoral Ward: Dalkeith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Charles Henry Greig, 1906. 3-storey, 2-bay gabled tenement with shop at ground. Cream sandstone rubble, red sandstone ashlar dressings; S elevation harled and rendered. Polished granite base course. Lintel course at 1st floor; cill course at 2nd floor. Moulded lozenge details to left and right at 1st floor with narrow band course above.
E (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: door (No 39) to house in slightly recessed narrow bay to right, with 6-pane fanlight; window on both 1st and 2nd floors above. Rounded corners to broad main bay: modern shop front (No 37) below original timber boarded frieze and consoled cornice. Recessed, round-arched panel above with cavetto surround over 2-storey canted oriel window; ashlar apron between windows, cornice and piended slate roof above window at 2nd floor.
S ELEVATION: 2 keystoned bull's-eye windows at 1st and 2nd floor to right. Irregular fenestration, with varied glazing in remaining bays.
N ELEVATION: adjoined to slightly advanced block of No 41 High Street (see separate listing).
Plate glass glazing pattern in casement windows. Apex detail, coped skews and mannered ashlar panelled skew blocks with moulded detail to E gable; right bay flat-roofed. Harled, tapered wallhead stack, with neck band, to right to S.
This building was constructed for William Kemp, chemist; the chemist's shop occupied the ground floor, and 4 houses were provided on the upper floors. The building was originally harled.
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