48 High Street, Montrose

48 High Street in Montrose is an earlier 19th-century, three-storey and attic, three-bay, shallow L-plan classical tenement that forms part of an irregular terrace, featuring a modern shop at the ground level. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with a stugged finish at the rear, and includes a cill cornice on the first floor, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course.

The principal elevation features a modern shopfront at the ground level with a deep fascia panel. The first and second floors are symmetrical, with chamfered heads on the windows and two piended dormers above.

The northeast elevation is adjacent to 44 High Street, while the southeast elevation adjoins 52 High Street on the right. This elevation has a two-bay wing on the left and a large corniced doorpiece on the right, made of smooth ashlar with a timber pilastered frame. It includes a large nine-panel door with a key pattern frieze rail and a 12-pane rectangular fanlight, along with timber mullioned bipartite windows on the first and second floors above, providing light to the staircase on the left.

The west elevation is harled and features a blank gable end that rises above the neighbouring two-storey building to the left. It has a single bay of the front section on the right, with a window at ground level extending to the second floor and a canted piended dormer above.

The building has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with coped skews, and a capped stack on the party wall to the north, along with an ashlar gablehead stack to the south. The interior was not seen in 1997.