St Margaret's Primary School, Blackfriars Street, Montrose

Later 19th century. Single storey, U-plan school building of 4-bay central range framed by gable ended blocks. Sandstone ashlar, base course, eaves band course, chamfered margins, battered cills. Stone mullions.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 4 bipartite windows to centre block, flanking gable ends with tripartites, circular panel with quatrefoil with stylised relieving arch above, lancet window in gablehead. Porch to right set back.

W ELEVATION: 4 bays, porch to left, 3 bipartites to right with blank panel to left of outer bay.

E ELEVATION: 4 bays, door to right with square 6-pane fanlight, 3 bipartites to left with blank panel to right of outer bay.

S ELEVATION: gable end to left with tripartite window and door. Centre block with 2 windows to left partly obscured by modern flat-roofed addition, 2 bipartite windows to right. Gable end to right with tripartite window and door, window in return to left.

12-pane timber framed windows to sides and some to rear, modern multi-pane windows to front and some to rear. Graded grey slates to pitched roofs. 2 ridge ventilators with square louvred base and spire to central ranges. Stone skews, gablet skewputts to front. Ridge stacks to E and W with 3 polygonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES, GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: low rubble stone walls to left (E) and right (W) with intact cast-iron railings and gates, 3 square section gatepiers with circular panels and quatrefoils upon each face. Modern brick wall extending W. Harled wall to S.