180 High Street, Montrose

184 High Street in Montrose is an early 19th-century, three-storey and attic, four-bay, L-plan classical tenement building that features shops on the ground floor, set within an irregular terrace. The eastern and southern elevations are finished in sandstone ashlar, while the rear and gable end are constructed of squared rubble. Architectural details include a cornice above the ground, first, and second floor cill band courses, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course with architraved margins.

On the eastern (principal) elevation, there is a pend entrance in the center at ground level, with a door to the left and a blocked door to the right within the pend. To the right, there is a 19th-century shopfront featuring three bays, with a central entrance, two-leaf panelled doors, and flanking plate glass windows with low stall risers. To the left, a mid-20th-century shopfront also has three bays, with a central entrance and flanking plate glass windows, all surrounded by polished black granite. The first and second floors are symmetrical, with corniced heads above the windows on the first floor, and there are two canted dormers.

The western elevation has two bays on the right, rendered at the ground and first floors. There is a pend entrance to the left, with a stone dog-leg forestair on the right that features cast-iron railings leading to a pilastered and corniced doorpiece above the pend, which includes a two-pane rectangular fanlight and a panelled door. A window is centered above on the second floor, with additional windows at the half-landing and on the first and second floors to the right, along with a door beneath the stairs. The western wing adjoins to the left.

The southern elevation features a three-bay western wing in close proximity, with a panelled door in the center, a two-pane rectangular fanlight, and windows on the first and second floors above. There are additional windows at the ground, first, and second floors to the left, a blocked window at ground level to the right, and a door at the first floor that opens onto a forestair, with a rectangular fanlight above. The gable end of the front block is blank, revealing exposed fireplace niches, with 186 and 188 High Street adjoining to the left.

The northern elevation includes a three-bay western wing overlooking the street, along with the gable end of the front block adjoining 176-178 High Street. The building features eight- and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The front block has a double-pitched roof covered in grey slate, while the western wing has a pitched roof. Broad, corniced gablehead stacks are located on the northern and southern sides, with a brick wallhead stack above the re-entrant angle to the west and to the north.

The interior was not seen in 1997.