Post Office Delivery Office, 23 Bridge Street, Montrose

W T Oldrieve, H M Board of Works, 1907. Large 2-storey and attic, 6-bay, rectangular-plan Scots Renaissance Post Office with single storey wing to rear forming T-plan. Stugged sandstone in irregular courses with contrasting ashlar dressings to front and sides, brick to rear. Base course, corbelled cornice above 1st floor, parapet, architraved margins. Stone mullions.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical frontage. Bay to centre; stone-mullioned and transomed corniced tripartite window above at 1st floor, dormer centred above with coped pointed-arch head and rose carving. Bays flanking; transomed corniced bipartites at ground, bipartites at 1st floor, dormers centred above with coped pointed-arch heads and thistle carvings. Bay to left; transomed window at ground, single window at 1st floor. Outer bay to left; entrance at ground with 2-leaf panelled doors, bracketed cornice and deep, keystoned round-arched fanlight with 10-pane glazing. Cornice above and carved panel inscribed "E Post Office R", single window at 1st floor, bipartite dormer with gabled head and lion carving. Outer bay to right; large, splayed, round-arched entrance at ground with hoodmould, timber-mullioned fanlight with multi-pane glazing, bipartite above at 1st floor, bipartite dormer with gabled head and lion carving.

S ELEVATION: blank gable end to left. Single storey brick built wing set back to right, irregular fenestration. Modern flat-roofed addition adjoining in re-entrant angle.

N ELEVATION: blank gable end to right. Single storey brick built wing set back to left, irregular fenestration. Single storey, flat roofed section in re-entrant angle.

E ELEVATION: gable end of single storey wing off-set to left of centre, round-arched window. 8 windows at 1st floor of main block, 1 window in raised wallhead breaking eaves to right.

8, 12, 15 and multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case and casement windows. Grey slate pitched roofs. Stone coped skews, skew putts. Ashlar, corniced, part-corbelled gablehead stacks, 2 cornice ridge stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.