Publication Account

Date 1998

Event ID 1019158

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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At 200 High Street, stands the once impressive Corn Exchange figure 16. Built by public subscription, it was the biggest indoor grain market in Scotland. Twin gabled, in Jacobean style, it has a hood-moulded entrance. The gableheads are surmounted with ball finials and weathervanes. The high open hall inside has a double-hammerbeam roof and a gallery to its west. Although now somewhat dilapidated, it is a fine encapsulation of Dalkeith's nineteenth-century status.

Information from ‘Historic Dalkeith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).