Dalhousie Hotel, 1-3 Market Street, Brechin

The Dalhousie Hotel, located at 1-3 Market Street, Brechin, dates to 1879, as indicated by a rainwater head. It is a well-detailed, three-storey and attic mid-Victorian Renaissance-style tenement, prominently situated on a sloping site at the corner of a town centre crossroad. The ground floor features an unaltered shop and public house, distinguished by a continuous console-bracketed cornice and blocking course forming the first-floor sill course, a second-floor string course, a main cornice, and a parapet with fireclay balusters and angle urns set over ashlar die blocks. The windows are architraved and bracketed at the second floor; a corbelled chimney breast is also present. The ground-floor openings feature stop-chamfered stone mullions.

The South (St David Street) elevation has a central shop doorway to the left and two public house display windows to the right, below a regular three-bay fenestration at the first and second floors. A moulded doorpiece with a deep fanlight is set into the splayed Southeast corner, with a window on each floor above. An elegant bellcast roof covers a canted window recessed behind the parapet. A plain panelled and corbelled chimney breast rises from the Market Street frontage, dividing into three linked square shafts.

The windows are timber sash and case with 4-pane and plate glass glazing above the ground floor, while the ground floor has fixed display windows. The roof is covered with grey slates. Ashlar stacks with a cavetto coping and some cans are present, along with plain coped ashlar and brick stacks with cans to the rear (North). Four small, flat-roofed dormer windows are concealed behind the parapet. Decorative cast-iron finials, a square-section downpipe, and a dated hopper are also incorporated into the exterior.

The interior of the public house is well-detailed, featuring two-leaf panelled timber doors with etched glass panels. The public bar has high ceilings with moulded cornices, full-height boarded timber walls, and a carved back gantry incorporating mirrors and a clock, along with a horseshoe-plan bar counter and a small, wheeled island gantry, likely from the 1950s or 1960s. High-backed window seats are also present. Window screens from the 1930s, etched with signs for "Breakfasts Lunches High Teas" and "Afternoon Teas," are located on the Market Street frontage. A small pool room also has boarded timber walls.

The close entrance to David Street features mosaic and encaustic-tiled floors, boarded dadoes, moulded plaster cornicing, and a decorative cast-iron balustrade.