Marine House, 1-16 Bents Road, Montrose

Marine House, located at 1-16 Bents Road in Montrose, was built in 1907. It is a large, two-storey house with an attic and basement, featuring a tall three-bay front and extensive four-storey wings at the rear that form an approximate L-shape. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone, with a band course and eaves cornice, and a central gabled stone dormer.

On the principal elevation, there is an eight-step stone flight leading up to a balcony and central entrance, which is framed by a depressed-arch doorpiece made of red terracotta. This doorpiece includes a plate glass fanlight, stained glass, and a panelled door. Above the entrance, there is a round-arched window on the first floor, adorned with decorative railings, and a stone dormer featuring a stone-mullioned round-arch bipartite window, along with a circular window that has quatrefoil stained glass and a terracotta finial. Full-height canted bay windows flank the entrance, each topped with cornices, and above these are timber mullioned canted dormers with wrought-iron finials.

The southeast elevation has a gable end with an inglenook projection and two windows with stained glass on the ground and first floors, along with a corniced wallhead. To the left, there is a four-bay, five-storey wing that extends into a five-bay east-facing wing, which includes a single bay that faces south with a gable end.

The northwest elevation features a gable end with two windows on the first floor and an asymmetrical four-storey wing with additional structures to the right, showing irregular fenestration. The west elevation displays an M-gabled design with four-storey wings and also has irregular fenestration.

The house has timber sash and case windows on the ground floor, while modern replacements are found elsewhere, featuring plate glass. The roofs are steeply pitched with grey slate and decorative terracotta ridge tiles, and there are stone coped skews and skew putts. Brick stacks are present at the gableheads and along the ridge of the five-storey wings.

The interior was not seen in 1998. The property is enclosed by low coped boundary walls to the east and south, with capped square section gate and corner piers. There are also square section piers and cast-iron railings above the basement to the east.