64-68 High Street, Montrose

64-68 High Street in Montrose is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey and attic classical tenement, part of an irregular terrace. The building features a shop at ground level, with a painted lined render front and harled sides and rear. It has a cill bank course on the first floor and an eaves cornice.

The principal elevation has a pend entrance to the right at ground level, with a pilaster-flanked shopfront to the left. The central door is flanked by a plate glass window on the left and topped with a corniced entablature. The first and second floors are symmetrical, featuring corniced windows on the first floor and two piended dormers above.

The west elevation includes a pend entrance to the left at ground level, with a two-storey wing extending to the right. There is a window to the left on the first floor and two bays on the second floor, with a bipartite dormer to the right.

The north elevation adjoins 62 High Street at ground and first floor to the left, with a harled gable end above. Nos 62 and 64 are close together on the right, featuring a two-storey, squared and snecked sandstone structure, a porch to the left, a pilastered doorpiece, a panelled door, and a timber-mullioned bipartite window at the centre on the ground floor. There is also a door to the right, a shallow rectangular fanlight, and glazed panels in the door, with a window to the left and a timber-mullioned bipartite window to the right on the first floor.

The south elevation adjoins 70/72 High Street to the right, with Nos 64 and 66 to the left, both harled. There is a window and a timber-mullioned bipartite window to the right on the first floor, and a single-storey addition abutting to the right at ground level, with a window at both ground and first floors to the extreme left.

The building features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, stone skews, a harled gablehead stack to the north, and a brick gablehead stack to the south.

The interior of the upper storeys, which was not seen in 1997, is accessed via a spiral stone staircase and a pilastered entrance in the close.