141, 143, 145 High Street, Montrose

Late 19th century. 3-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, Jacobean detailed house. Sandstone ashlar stugged to front, plain to rear rubble stone to side and gable ends. Base course, cill course at 1st floor and string course at 2nd floor, chamfered margins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central bay slightly advanced, blank at ground floor, blinded window at 1st floor with billet ornament at head, blinded slit window at 2nd floor with hoodmould, prominent stone wallhead dormer with canted oriel window above consoled eaves cornice, curvilinear gablehead with keystone, flanking square stacks. Bay to right, window at ground floor with small additional window to side, window at 1st floor in recessed margins with billetted head, window at 2nd floor with hoodmould. Bay to left, door off-set to left, window to right behind pair of octagonal columns on bases supporting 1st floor canted window, window at 2nd floor with hoodmould.

S ELEVATION: advanced gable end to right with window in gablehead, 2-bay wing to left with later 2-storey harled addition to left.

W ELEVATION: advanced blank gable end to left with 2-storey addition extending to right, single bay of original house set back.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical, harled at ground and 1st floors with irregular fenestration, 2nd floor blank, gable to left, later dormer to centre, 2-storey addition to right.

8-pane timber sash and case windows at 1st floor E elevation, various modern replacements elsewhere. Grey slate roof; stone skews and elaborate corbelled, panelled and corniced skewputts, with stone finials on E elevation. Corniced ashlar gablehead stacks to N and S, rendered brick to W.

INTERIOR: ground floor converted for use as medical practice, apartments above (not seen 1997).

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble stone boundary wall to S with stugged ashlar gatepiers with corniced caps opening onto Swapps Close from garden of No 149 possibly originally leading to No 145.