172 -174 High Street, Montrose

172-174 High Street in Montrose is a tenement building dated 1888, featuring three stories and an attic, arranged in an L-plan with a shop at the ground level, set within an irregular terrace. The building showcases classical architectural details, constructed with bull-faced sandstone and ashlar on the front, while the rear is squared and stugged. It has a small cornice above the ground floor, cill cornices on the first and second floors, an eaves cornice, and architraved margins.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with bays divided by two giant pilasters arranged in a 1-2-1 grouping. At the ground level, there is a modern plate glass shopfront in the center, flanked by bull-faced pilasters with banded rustication. To the right, there is an entrance to the upper floors with a rectangular fanlight, and to the left, a pend entrance also featuring a rectangular fanlight. The first floor has two stone mullioned bipartite windows set beneath a keystoned segmental arch with bull-faced voussoirs. Stugged panelling is present between the bays, adorned with floreate and bird carvings in the arch-head, featuring a disc with the date 1888 in interlacing numerals. The flanking pilasters have a single band at their mid-point, with single windows in the outer bays. The second floor mirrors the first with two stone-mullioned bipartite windows under shallow segmental arched heads, flanked by fluted pilasters, and single windows in the outer bays. The roof features two canted dormers with cast-iron finials.

The north elevation adjoins 166 High Street to the left and extends west into 168 High Street Close, displaying irregular fenestration with droved margins. The south elevation adjoins 176-178 High Street to the right and includes a two-bay west wing with a deep consoled and corniced doorpiece to the right, ashlar reveals, an architraved rectangular fanlight, and windows on the first and second floors above. The left bay has a window at the ground and first floors, with the second floor finished in recent lined render.

The west elevation features a pend entrance to the right, a boarded basement and ground floor window to the left, and windows on the first and second floors, with a canted dormer above. It adjoins 174 High Street in the close to the left.

The building has timber sash and case windows, plate glass, and 4-pane windows at the rear. The roofs are pitched with grey slate, and there is a brick stack on the party wall to the south and an ashlar stack on the party wall to the north. The interior was not seen in 1997.