38 High Street, Fort William

38 High Street in Fort William is a three-storey corner building constructed around 1860. It features a two-bay elevation facing High Street and a five-bay facade along Cameron Square, with a distinctive bowed angle bay that includes the entrance. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar stone.

The entrance, accessed by steps due to the sloping site, is flanked by engaged Roman Doric polished granite columns. These columns support a shallow projecting balcony on the first floor, which has a cast-iron balustrade. The west facade on Cameron Square has a slightly advanced pedimented center bay, which contains a blocked entrance that was originally bipartite. The ground floor windows are also bipartite. A continuous cornice runs over the ground floor, connecting the details of the doorpiece.

The first and second floor windows are adorned with moulded architraves and cill bands. The first floor windows feature bracketed pediments, with segmental shapes above each entrance. All windows have two-pane glazing, except for a slightly altered ground floor window on the extreme right of the Cameron Square facade, which has modern glazing.

The building has a blocking course raised above the curved angle, supported by console brackets. It is topped with a moulded eaves cornice, a corniced ridge, and end stacks, all under a piended slate roof.