435 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

435 Lawnmarket in Edinburgh is an early 18th century building that has undergone alterations at the ground and first floors to accommodate a public house, completed by PL Henderson in 1894, with further modifications by Robert Hurd in 1950. This five-storey (six storeys at the rear) tenement features a five-bay front and a four-bay wing at the back, constructed of random rubble with ashlar dressings.

The south elevation facing Lawnmarket has an arcade of three moulded round-arched openings at the ground floor, flanked by decorative mouldings. The central entrance consists of a studded timber boarded two-leaf door with wrought-iron hinges and a fanlight above, flanked by windows. Above, there is a continuous dentilled cornice and paired fluted pilasters at the corners. The first floor has a bipartite window in the center, flanked by tripartite windows separated by pilasters, with regular fenestration on the upper floors. The attic features a two-window gabled finialled wallhead dormer.

On the east elevation facing Bank Street, there is a gable end with two small windows at the upper level, and four recessed bays that are regularly fenestrated, including three small attic windows, with the public house built out in front.

The west elevation facing Wardrop's Court has segmental-arched entrances to the cellarage on both the left and right sides. A central stone stair with cast-iron railings divides to the left and right, leading to an open landing with doors to the flats. Paired windows are present on the right and left at the first, second, and third floors above, and there are two dormer-headed windows in the attic that break the eaves.

Inside the public house, there is a compartmented ceiling adorned with painted plasterwork roses and thistles. The bar features a mirrored timber gantry and pilastered timber structure. A stained glass window with a Gaelic motto is located in the stair area.

The building has 12-pane glazing with timber sash and case windows, graded grey slates, stone skews, and corniced rubble end and gablehead stacks.