Ymca Hostel, 98 Murray Street, Montrose

The YMCA Hostel, located at 98 Murray Street in Montrose, dates from around 1910. This two-storey building with an attic has a near rectangular plan and features a mix of classical and Renaissance architectural styles. The front is constructed of stugged sandstone ashlar, while the rear is made of squared rubble stone. Notable exterior elements include a base course, a ground floor cill course, a cornice above the ground floor, a first-floor cill course, an eaves cornice, a parapet, and stone mullions.

On the east elevation, there is a large opening to the left that is partly blocked, with a single door and two tripartite windows to the right. Three segmental-headed bipartite windows are present, framed by pilasters that are corbelled above the ground floor. A narrow bay is offset to the right, with a blank panel between the floors and a segmental pediment feature above the parapet, flanked by segmental-headed parapets in the adjacent bays.

The northeast elevation features a single bay with a splayed corner, a pilastered entrance, and a round-arch doorway with a fanlight and keystone. There are two-leaf doors and a single narrow window on the first floor, topped by an octagonal corner towerhead and a single window with an ogee-headed roof and a ball finial.

On the north elevation, there is a segmental-headed bipartite window at the center and another bipartite window above it. Flanking pilasters are corbelled above the ground floor, with single windows on either side and a segmental pediment above the parapet at the center bay.

The south elevation has two large openings that are partially boarded at the ground level, with a single-storey addition to the left made of ashlar. There is a boarded doorway with a segmental head and a tripartite window at the center on the first floor, flanked by pilasters that are corbelled above the ground floor. A small window is centered above in the gablehead, which features deep scroll cornices flanking a gablehead stack.

The west elevation displays irregular fenestration, with stone mullioned bipartite windows on the left at ground level and on the right at the first floor. An external fire escape leads from a doorway at the center of the first floor, and there are two later dormers to the right.

The building has timber sash and case plate glass and horizontal-pane windows, a grey slate roof, and an ashlar gablehead stack with three octagonal cans on the south side. There is also a snecked sandstone stack rising from the eaves on the west side, along with good cast-iron rainwater goods, hoppers, and fixtures.

The interior was not seen in 1997.