The central bay featured a doorway with a moulded surround surmounted by an entablature and a pediment with a cartouche, bearing the arms of the Earls of Buccleuch, in the tympanum.

[1] One of the last people to face a public execution in Scotland, William Thomson, was tried at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh for the murder of a farmer from Cousland, George Dickson, found guilty and then hanged from the gallows outside the tolbooth in Dalkeith in March 1827.

[6] Following significant population growth, largely associated with the status of Dalkeith as a market town, the area became a police burgh in 1878.

[15] Since the early 21st century it has served as a base for staff employed by the Midlothian's Young People Advice Service (MYPAS).

[16] An extensive programme of repairs to the external fabric of the building, involving the replacement of cement, was carried out at a cost of £220,000 in 2012.