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338 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9491 / 55°56'56"N

Longitude: -3.1941 / 3°11'38"W

OS Eastings: 325528

OS Northings: 673535

OS Grid: NT255735

Mapcode National: GBR 8NG.HX

Mapcode Global: WH6SL.XQ6R

Plus Code: 9C7RWRX4+J9

Entry Name: 338 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 332-340 (Even Nos) Lawnmarket

Listing Date: 11 January 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 368638

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29244

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 338 Lawnmarket

ID on this website: 200368638

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: City Centre

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

John Russell Walker, 1884-6. 4-storey and attic Scots Baronial tenement with shop to ground floor and curvilinear gabled wallhead dormers; 3 bays to Lawnmarket, 1 bay to junction with West Bow, and single bay with 3 storey oriel to corner. Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone with polished dressings (painted to ground). Moulded string courses between ground and 1st floors, and between 3rd and attic floors; cill courses at 1st and 3rd floors; moulded eaves course. Roll-moulded tabbed surrounds to windows.

N (LAWNMARKET) ELEVATION: pilastraded shops to ground floor; narrow pend to outer left with decorative wrought-iron gate. Bipartite windows in right and centre bays above. Finialled shaped wallhead dormers breaking eaves to attic. Chamfered wallhead stack with long and short quoins between right and centre bays.

NW ELEVATION: 2-leaf timber panelled storm door to outer left in ogee-arched roll-moulded surround; 3-storey oriel above with decorative stone parapet to balcony above; bipartite window in shaped wallhead dormer to attic. Pilastraded shop to right at ground floor; bipartite windows and gabletted crowstepped gable to right. Wallhead stack to centre.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Tall corniced wallhead stacks with long and short quoins and circular cans.

Statement of Interest

The picturesque old building previously occupying this site (demolished in 1878) was depicted by Shepherd, by Thomas Hamilton and by Grant, and photographed by Thomas Begbie.

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