Montrose

Montrose is a house that dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 19th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The main range of the house has two bays and faces north. It was originally part of a larger structure that included crosswings to the east and west. There is an internal stack located at the rear of the ridge and a single-storey lean-to at the back. The house has two storeys and unlit attics.

On the ground floor, there are three mid-19th century sash windows, each with six lights, including marginal lights. The first floor has two sash windows. The entrance features a flush four-panel door set in a simple doorcase with a moulded pediment supported by profiled brackets. There is also a plain door leading to a passage on the right.

The front wall was originally set back from the crosswings but was rebuilt in the late 16th century to align with them and was raised, which enclosed the jowled posts of the original construction. The original front wallplate has been severed at the posts. There is a moulded jetty plate with spiral-leaf carving, which is partly boxed in. The joists are moulded with a horizontal section, and there are chamfered transverse and axial beams above the first floor, featuring lamb's tongue stops. The attic floor consists of rebated boards.

The roof is a butt-purlin type, with two purlins in each pitch, and has been stained with creosote. The house contains 20th-century grates and a 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with scrolled tread-ends, a hardwood handrail, stick balusters, and possibly altered newels. The display bracing of the left crosswing is exposed.