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Latitude: 55.8965 / 55°53'47"N
Longitude: -3.0676 / 3°4'3"W
OS Eastings: 333335
OS Northings: 667558
OS Grid: NT333675
Mapcode National: GBR 7008.N3
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.V1FZ
Plus Code: 9C7RVWWJ+JX
Entry Name: 161-163 High Street, Dalkeith
Listing Name: 161 and 163 High Street
Listing Date: 18 October 1976
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360326
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24403
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dalkeith, 161 - 163 High Street
ID on this website: 200360326
Location: Dalkeith
County: Midlothian
Town: Dalkeith
Electoral Ward: Dalkeith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Mid 18th century. L-plan tenement with asymmetric octagonal stair tower at rear in NW angle. 3-storey and attic, 4 bays grouped towards centre. Harled. Painted margins. Eaves cornice to N elevation of jamb.
E (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: pilastered doorpiece in bay to left of centre, strip fanlight above ashlar lintel. Regularly disposed feneestration to all floors, smaller windows at ground floor in bays to right.
W ELEVATION: gable jamb advanced to right; door to N of tower; 3 stair windows. Windows flanking to left and on left return of jamb to each floor. 2-storey rubble lean-to outbuilding with grey slates and coped skews adjoined to blank gable of jamb.
N ELEVATION: blank.
S ELEVATION: largely blank to left, with 5 irregularly sized and disposed windows. Adjoined to Nos 153 and 155 High Street (see separate listing) to right, by extant gable wall of previously neighbouring building.
Small-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows, 12-pane to E elevation, varying sizes of fixed pane to tower. 3 piended slate-hung dormer windows with broad margins to E pitch. Coped skews. Gablehead stacks. Polygonal roof to tower. Grey slates.
B Group with Nos 153 and 155, 165-169, 186 and 188, 190-194, 196 and 198, 200, 212 and 214, and 216 and 218 High Street.
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