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Latitude: 55.8967 / 55°53'48"N
Longitude: -3.0668 / 3°4'0"W
OS Eastings: 333384
OS Northings: 667575
OS Grid: NT333675
Mapcode National: GBR 7008.V1
Mapcode Global: WH6T1.V1SV
Plus Code: 9C7RVWWM+M7
Entry Name: 216, 218 High Street, Dalkeith
Listing Name: 216 and 218 High Street
Listing Date: 9 March 1992
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360360
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24424
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200360360
Location: Dalkeith
County: Midlothian
Town: Dalkeith
Electoral Ward: Dalkeith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
Later 18th century. 2-storey, 3-bay house. White painted harl. Ashlar surround to door. Slightly raised concrete margins to windows.
W (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: door with strip fanlight at centre. Regular fenestration in outer bays; window in centre bay out-of-line to left.
N ELEVATION: window at ground floor to left. Evidence of former buildings adjoining.
S ELEVATION: mutual gable with Nos 212 and 214 High Street (see
separate listing).
E ELEVATION: modern timber addition to right behind harled screen wall. 2-storey gabled rubble range running E adjoined to left; irregularly disposed doors and windows, with several fixed small-pane windows; brick repairs and stacks; grey and purple slates asbestos sheeting to roofs.
12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. 2 small roof-lights to W pitch; modern dormer window to right of E pitch. Raised skew with skewblock to NW. Gablehead stack to N. Purple-grey slates.
B Group with Nos 153 and 155, 161 and 163, 165-169, 186 and 188, 190-194, 196 and 198, 200, and 212 and 214 High Street. The raised skews indicate that the house was probably originally thatched. The rear range has been in use as a joiner's shop since 1958; the premises were previously used as a brush factory, and were more recently occupied by the Scottish Country Press, who used the house as offices.
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