52 North Esk Road, Montrose

52 North Esk Road in Montrose is a single-storey and attic, three-bay house built in 1898 by J Sim. The building is constructed of stugged sandstone ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings and features a base course and chamfered margins.

The principal elevation faces west and has a central entrance with a roll-moulded surround, a four-panel outer door, and a rectangular fanlight above, leading to a part-glazed inner door. Above the entrance is a gabled dormer with barge boards decorated with cloverleaf patterns and a finial. To the right, there is a stone-mullioned tripartite window with raised margins, and a canted dormer above featuring a wrought-iron finial. On the left side, a canted window at ground level is adorned with scalloped tiles, with a canted dormer above and cast-iron brattishing around the cill, also topped with a wrought-iron finial. There is a piended single-storey projection on the left with a window.

The north elevation shows a gable end with a projection at ground level, while the south elevation also features a gable end. The east elevation consists of three bays at ground level, with a gabled stair tower in the center. It has a small window at ground level and a tall window above that lights the staircase. To the left, there is a small gabled dormer with bargeboards decorated with cloverleaf patterns and a finial, and a doorway in the projection to the right.

The house has timber sash and case windows with plate glass, and the roof is covered with grey slate and has stone skews and skew-putts. The gablehead stacks are made of ashlar and corniced, topped with three polygonal cans. Moulded cast-iron guttering completes the exterior.

Inside, there is a pitch pine staircase, original doors and fittings, and "patent" hinges on the sash and case windows. The property is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall to the south at the rear and a coped ashlar wall that fronts North Esk Road.