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6 London Road, Dalkeith

A Category B Listed Building in Dalkeith, Midlothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.892 / 55°53'31"N

Longitude: -3.0682 / 3°4'5"W

OS Eastings: 333291

OS Northings: 667060

OS Grid: NT332670

Mapcode National: GBR 7009.JQ

Mapcode Global: WH6T1.V54F

Plus Code: 9C7RVWRJ+RP

Entry Name: 6 London Road, Dalkeith

Listing Name: 6 London Road

Listing Date: 30 June 1983

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360375

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24435

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dalkeith, 6 London Road

ID on this website: 200360375

Location: Dalkeith

County: Midlothian

Town: Dalkeith

Electoral Ward: Dalkeith

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Later 18th century. 2-storey, 4-bay house (4th bay to right added later). Rubble, N elevation squared and coursed. Raised margins, painted on ground floor N elevation. Angle margins. Deep base course. Cill course at 1st floor. Eaves course at lintel level. Ovolo moulded eaves cornice.

N (LONDON ROAD) ELEVATION: steps up to doorway at centre, with wrought-iron balustrade; decorative consoles to open pediment above archtraved doorcase; panelled door and 2-pane fanlight. Large garage door with wooden lintel in bay to outer right. Regular fenestration at ground and 1st floors.

E ELEVATION: window at ground and 1st floors to right.

W ELEVATION: chamfered reveals to 2 windows at 1st floor.

Plate glass glazing patern in sash and case windows. 2 slate-hung piended dormer windows with small-pane glazing pattern to S pitch.

Coped skews; rope-detailed skewputts with pedestals (for urns?) to N. Rendered stacks, gablehead to E, and to former end gable to W. Purple slates to main roof, grey slates to half-piended roof of later bay.

Statement of Interest

Groups well with Nos 1-5, and 8-11 London Road. Nos 1-5 London Road (see separate listing) are apparently the work of the same school of masons.

A house was built on the site of a former piend-roofed outbuilding to the rear of No 6 after 2013. Listed building record updated, 2022.

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