119-121 High Street, Montrose

This is an earlier 18th century building with additions from the mid-18th century, forming a four-storey, T-shaped structure. The exterior is a mix of materials: ashlar, rubble stone, harl (roughcast), and render, with plain margins.

The South elevation has a two-bay gable on the right. The lower section is rendered and blank, with a continuous sill band course on the first floor, while the upper section is rubble stone. A window on the third floor has been blocked. To the left, a two-bay wing features a recessed entrance with a segmental arch and corniced doorpiece. Above the entrance is a rectangular three-pane window, and a multi-pane hall window illuminates the staircase on the second and third floors. The ground-floor bay to the left has a plain window, with further plain windows on the first through third floors, the third-floor window being set further to the left. The margins are chamfered and finished with lined cement render.

The North elevation is symmetrical across three bays on the first to third floors and incorporates a modern shop at ground level, built with painted ashlar. A pend (archway) is located on the left, with a single-bay wing above facing West and rendered in finish.

The West elevation adjoins the Town House. The East elevation is harled and asymmetrical, built against and partially connecting with Mooran House. It includes one window at third-floor level, a curved stairtower projection topped with a second-floor window, a third-floor window above the stairtower, ground and first-floor windows in the re-entrant angle, a ground-floor door, and a bay to the right containing a pend. Additional windows are positioned on the second and third floors, set further to the left.

The building has a grey slate roof with stone coped skews and skewputts (decorative gables). Brick gablehead stacks are present on the North and South sides, with a broad brick ridge stack on the West adjoining the Town House, a tall brick stack rising from the eaves on the East, and a blocked brick stack interrupting the roof pitch on the North.

The interior includes a restaurant on the ground floor of number 119 (facing the North elevation). The apartments in number 121 are accessed from a South doorway, via a common staircase with wooden banisters. Timber-panelled screens with stained and frosted glass windows are located on each landing. A principal room in the West wing of the second floor features full-height painted 18th-century panelling and windows facing North with fielded panelled shutters. Rooms within the East wing, situated above Mooran House, have irregular floor plans.