Works, Bent's Road, Montrose

This building, located on Bent's Road in Montrose, dates back to 1789 and features additions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of a long single-storey ropework structure with a rubble stone wall on one side and a brick wall on the other. The western section has seven bays and is attached to two-storey rubble stone buildings that have recently been covered with dry-dash.

The original ropework structure was 400 feet long, with a rubble stone northern wall and a brick southern wall. The fenestration is irregular, with some openings blocked. The western section includes six windows, one door, and a raised roof. The windows are timber-mullioned bipartite types with four panes. The western part has a grey and pink slate pitched roof, while further east, the roofing is made of corrugated material and is in a ruinous state with sections missing.

Inside, the building is in disrepair. The flooring in the western section is made from tar barrel staves, and original whalebone rests embedded in the northern wall are still visible.

The adjoining two-storey buildings to the east connect with the ropework. The first floor has six bays, with two windows and a door at ground level, and a flat-roofed addition at the rear with a forestair on the left. The central section has a three-bay ground floor featuring central two-leaf workshop doors flanked by windows, and two timber-mullioned bipartite windows on the first floor. An entrance from the forestair is located on the right side, and the northern wall is brick-built. The piended section to the west has a door and window at ground level, and a window on the first floor, also with a brick-built northern wall.

The windows are four-pane timber-framed types, and the roofs have recently been covered with grey slate. The structure features stone skews and a capped stack on the western side.

Boundary walls made of brick are present to the west and at the entrance to the southwest.