Mill Building, Grannies Park, Edinburgh Road, Dalkeith

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - see notes Date Added 09/03/1992 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Dalkeith NGR NT 33025 67561 Coordinates 333025, 667561 — Collection of 3 mill buildings, of late 18th and early and mid 19th century dates. Rubble, some with ashlar dressings. Crowstepped gables and dormerheads. 3-storey and loft former flour mill with later cartshed range forming L-plan. W end of N range late 18th century, N range lengthened between 1822 and 1835, and S cartshed range post 1852. W ELEVATION: M-gabled. Brick forestair, with stone treads and door in EW face, on right gable. Door to left of right gable at 1st floor. Windows to 1st and 2nd floors and in gableheads, set left of centre on right gable. S ELEVATION: modern timber lean-to adjoined to S elevation in re-entrant space. 3-bay cartshed to left with continuous timber lintel above 3 porch entrances and 2 wide relieving arches above outer bays, door at centre at 1st floor, and regularly disposed windows, squatter at 2nd floor. Single bay gabled return elevation with windows. 4 bays to right with windows at 2nd floor intercepted by lean-to, dormerhead in bay to right of centre, blank addition in outer left bay. E ELEVATION: gabled, single bay. Iron forestair to door at 1st floor. Window at 2nd floor. N ELEVATION: 7-bay (3-4). Modern corrugated iron lean-to adjoining 6 bays to right. Arched mill race opening in bay to outer left. Regularly disposed windows in remaining bays. Earlier mill building visible to W of N range. Window openings variously glazed, boarded or bricked up. Asbestos roof to N block, plastic sheeting to S roof. 2-storey, 5-bay symmetrical gabled block (built between 1822 and 1835). W ELEVATION: doors in bays flanking centre, with 1st floor granary

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.