Inverdyke House, 3-5 Chapel Street, Montrose

Inverdyke House, located at 3-5 Chapel Street in Montrose, is an early 19th-century, two-storey house with an attic and basement, featuring three bays. The front and back are finished with bull-faced and lined render, while the sides are harled. There is a cill course on the first floor and an eaves band course.

On the west elevation, a two-step stone flight and landing with wrought-iron railings leads to a central round-arched doorpiece supported by Doric columns, topped with a large fanlight that has modern glazing. Above this, there is a blinded tripartite window on the first floor, with windows in the basement, ground, and first floors flanking the door. The roof features two piended part-sunk dormers. To the right, there is a single-storey piended addition with a window in a blocked doorway.

The east elevation consists of three bays, with a piended roof porch at the centre that has a corniced entrance on the south face, a rectangular fanlight, and a panelled door. A tall window rises to the first floor above the porch, with flanking windows at the ground and first floors. There is a piended dormer with a cill recessed in the pitch to the right.

The north elevation is a gable end, while the south elevation also features a gable end with a single-storey piended addition at the ground level, which includes one window.

The house has timber sash and case windows with plate glass on the ground and first floors, while the basement, dormers, and additions have modern windows. The pitched roof is covered with modern brown machine tiles, and there are coped skews and rendered gablehead stacks.

Surrounding the property are harled rubble stone boundary walls to the north and south, extending east and west to enclose gardens on both sides of the house. Square-section ashlar gatepiers are located at the east and west ends of the south wall.