340 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

338 Lawnmarket in Edinburgh is a four-storey and attic Scots Baronial tenement designed by John Russell Walker between 1884 and 1886. It features a shop on the ground floor and has distinctive curvilinear gabled wallhead dormers. The building has three bays facing Lawnmarket, one bay at the junction with West Bow, and a single bay with a three-storey oriel at the corner. It is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings, although the ground floor is painted. There are moulded string courses between the ground and first floors, and between the third and attic floors, as well as cill courses at the first and third floors and a moulded eaves course. The windows have roll-moulded tabbed surrounds.

On the north elevation facing Lawnmarket, there are pilastraded shops on the ground floor and a narrow pend to the outer left with a decorative wrought-iron gate. Above, the right and centre bays have bipartite windows, and the attic features finialled shaped wallhead dormers that break the eaves. A chamfered wallhead stack with long and short quoins is located between the right and centre bays.

The northwest elevation includes a two-leaf timber panelled storm door to the outer left, set in an ogee-arched roll-moulded surround. Above this is a three-storey oriel with a decorative stone parapet and a balcony above. There is a bipartite window in a shaped wallhead dormer in the attic. To the right at ground floor is another pilastraded shop, with bipartite windows and a gabletted crowstepped gable. A wallhead stack is positioned at the centre.

The building features four-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, and it is topped with graded grey slates. The tall corniced wallhead stacks have long and short quoins and circular cans.