Eskbank South Bridge, Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/06/1983 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Dalkeith NGR NT 32367 66711 Coordinates 332367, 666711 — Former Eskbank and Dalkeith Station, with platforms, foot bridge and road bridge in cutting to W. STATION: Thomas Grainger and John Miller, 1847. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical double-pile Tudor former station building with recessed single storey gabled wings, now converted into flats. Stugged cream sandstone masonry. Cill course at ground on E, N and S elevations. String course above 1st floor on E and W elevations. Coped parapet to E and W elevations. Finely droved margin drafts and rybats. Chamfered reveals including cills. E (STATION ROAD) ELEVATIONS: gabled centre bay slightly advanced with crenellated porch at ground; 4-centred-arched doorway, modern door and multi-pane fanlight; glazed arrowslits on returns in recessed panels, with parapet corbelled above; hoodmoulded bipartite window at 1st floor and blind arrowslit in gablehead. Bipartite windows to both floors in outer bays, hoodmoulded at ground. Window between left and centre bays at ground. N ELEVATION: M-gabled. Left gable: 2 hoodmoulded bipartite windows at ground, and hoodmoulded window at centre to 1st floor. Right gable: gabled wing adjoined at ground; small opening to left at 1st floor. Wing: hoodmoulded window to E return; blocked door flanked by 2 windows to N elevation. S ELEVATION: M-gabled. Hoodmoulded door, with 4-pane fanlight, to left of right gable. Hoodmoulded bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor between gables. Wing: hoodmoulded window to E return; 2-leaf modern door (No 6A), with slated canopy, to left and tripartite window at centre to S elevation. W ELEVATION: wings advanced at each side. 5 2-storey bays. Door in bays to left and right

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.