38 High Street, Dunfermline

38 High Street in Dunfermline is a commercial building designed by Baird and Thomson of Glasgow in 1902 for Clydesdale Bank. It is a three-storey structure with an attic and features four bays. The design is a symmetrical free Renaissance style, characterized by pedimented windows on the first floor and dormers. The principal elevation is made of polished sandstone ashlar.

The building has a base course and band courses that connect the window cills at each level. There are additional band courses near the lintels, which create friezes on the ground and second floors, with roundel panels above the windows on the second floor. A moulded cornice is located above the ground floor, and there is a modillioned eaves cornice at the roofline. The windows on each floor are architraved; those on the ground floor have Gibbs surrounds, while the first-floor windows are aediculed with pediments supported by consoled brackets. The dormers are also pedimented.

On the principal (south) elevation, there is an aediculed entrance on the outer right, featuring Corinthian pilasters and a pediment on consoled brackets adorned with acanthus motifs. The entrance includes moulded reveals and a 16-panel, two-leaf timber door with a rectangular fanlight. The fenestration is regular, with a window in each bay on the left and in each bay on the upper storeys.

The windows are mainly two-panel timber sash and case, with multi-pane dormers. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are coursed sandstone gablehead stacks with moulded coping on either side, featuring round and octagonal cans. The interior was not inspected in 1998.