52 North Esk Road, Montrose

J Sim, 1898. Single storey and attic, 3-bay house. Stugged sandstone ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings. Base course. Chamfered margins.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central entrance with roll-moulded surround, 4-panel outer door, rectangular fanlight, part-glazed inner door. Gabled dormer centred above, barge boards pierced with cloverleaf decoration, finial. Bay to right; stone-mullioned tripartite with raised margins, canted dormer centred above with wrought-iron finial. Bay to left; canted window at ground with scalloped tiles and canted dormer above, cast-iron brattishing around cill, wrought-iron finial. Piended, single storey projection to left with window.

N ELEVATION: gable end with projection at ground.

S ELEVATION: gable end.

E ELEVATION: 3 bays at ground with gabled stairtower to centre. Small window at ground and tall window above lighting staircase. Small gabled dormer to left, bargeboards pierced with cloverleaf decoration finial. Doorway in projection to right.

Timber sash and case windows, plate glass. Grey slate pitched roof. Stone skews, skew-putts. corniced, ashlar gablehead stacks with 3 polygonal cans. Moulded cast-iron guttering.

INTERIOR: pitch pine staircase, original doors and fittings, "patent" hinges on sash and case windows.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary wall to S at rear, coped ashlar wall fronting North Esk Road.