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Ellon Cottage, 15 Park Road, Dalkeith

A Category C Listed Building in Dalkeith, Midlothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.889 / 55°53'20"N

Longitude: -3.0766 / 3°4'35"W

OS Eastings: 332757

OS Northings: 666735

OS Grid: NT327667

Mapcode National: GBR 60YB.QS

Mapcode Global: WH6T1.Q74Q

Plus Code: 9C7RVWQF+J8

Entry Name: Ellon Cottage, 15 Park Road, Dalkeith

Listing Name: 13 and 15 Park Road, the Lilacs and Ellon Cottage

Listing Date: 9 March 1992

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360410

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24461

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200360410

Location: Dalkeith

County: Midlothian

Town: Dalkeith

Electoral Ward: Midlothian East

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Later 19th century. Single storey mirrored pair of 3-bay houses (No 13 to left, No 15 to right). E elevation ashlar, remaining elevations rubble; ashlar dressings. Base course. Moulded eaves course. Raised Margins. Chamfered margins, stopped before cill, to windows. Raised angle margins.

E (PARK ROAD) ELEVATION: each house comprising door at centre, with bracketted cornice and angled tablet; panelled door and plate glass fanlight; bipartite windows in outer bays.

W ELEVATION: each 3-bay; both houses with gabled outer bays. Window to each gable at 1st floor and stair window in between.

N ELEVATION, No 15: small window at centre at ground. Small window to left in gablehead. Set-off and shouldered chimneybreast.

S ELEVATION< NO 13: small window to right in gablehead.

4-pane lying-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. 3 rooflights to each house on E pitch. Coped skews, mutual at centre. Bracketted skewputts, mutual at centre. Rendered and lined stacks, gablehead to N and S, mutual at centre. Purple-grey slates. Original rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

The pair are listed as a good example of a later Victorian single storey semi-detached gentrified villa.

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