Post Office Delivery Office, 23 Bridge Street, Montrose

This is a large, two-storey and attic, six-bay, rectangular Post Office Delivery Office built in 1907 to a Scots Renaissance design by W T Oldrieve for the HM Board of Works. A single-storey wing extends to the rear, forming a T-shaped layout. The front and sides are constructed of stugged sandstone in irregular courses, with contrasting ashlar dressings, while the rear is brick. A base course, corbelled cornice above the first floor, a parapet, architraved margins, stone mullions, and stone coped skew putts are prominent features. Grey slate covers the pitched roofs, with ashlar, corniced, part-corbelled gablehead stacks and two corniced ridge stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The principal, west-facing elevation has a near-symmetrical frontage. The central bay features a stone-mullioned and transomed tripartite window above at the first floor, topped by a dormer with a coped pointed-arch head and rose carving. Flanking bays have transomed corniced bipartites at ground level, bipartites at first floor, and dormers with coped pointed-arch heads and thistle carvings. The bay to the left has a transomed window at ground level with a single window above; the outer bay has a recessed entrance with two-leaf panelled doors, a bracketed cornice, and a deep, keystoned round-arched fanlight with ten-pane glazing, along with a carved panel inscribed “E Post Office R”. The bay to the right features a large, splayed, round-arched entrance with a hoodmould, a timber-mullioned fanlight with multi-pane glazing, and a matching bipartite window above, topped by a dormer with a gabled head and lion carving.

The south elevation has a blank gable end to the left and a single-storey brick wing set back on the right. A modern flat-roofed addition is situated in the re-entrant angle. The north elevation mirrors this, with a blank gable end to the right and a single-storey brick wing set back to the left. A single-storey, flat-roofed section is located in the re-entrant angle. The east elevation showcases a gable end of the single-storey wing, offset to the left of centre, with a round-arched window. The main block has eight windows at first floor, and a raised wallhead breaks the eaves to the right, displaying a single window.

The building has timber sash and case and casement windows with 8, 12, 15, and multi-pane glazing. The interior was not inspected in 1998.