Links House Hotel, Mill Street, Montrose

J Greig, 1851 - 2. On site of, and possibly including fabric of earlier house. 2-storey and attic house with connecting section to rear forming complex asymmetrical plan with modern connecting additions. Sandstone ashlar, chamfered margins.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Porch with shallow segmental-arched doorway and windows in returns, single bay immediately to right. Full-height bay window to right with stone-mullioned bipartites and attached column corner decoration. 7 windows at 1st floor to left, modern plate glass window at ground, 2 gabled dormers. Modern block adjoining to left and extending S. Modern additions to right, with N facing house set back.

N ELEVATION: house to rear with 2 tympany gables flanking piended roof.

E ELEVATION: 2 gable ends that to right 2-bay and advanced, that to left with modern additions at ground and 2 windows in gablehead.

W ELEVATION: gable end; later entrance at ground, window to centre at 1st floor, windows to right in gablehead. Modern block to right and extending S.

Timber sash and case windows, 4-pane to front. 12-pane in W gable. Grey slate roofs. Ashlar gablehead stacks and stack breaking pitch to S.

INTERIOR: good decorative schemes in situ, styles reflect different periods of occupation. Entrance hall: later 19th Century fireplace with Arts and Crafts inspired tiles and panels reaching ceiling, marble surround and mantelpiece with panelling and mirror. Round-arched doorways with panelled doors flanking divided staircase. Large 12-light window with stained glass by Daniel Cottier on half landing. Fine painted and gilded cornice at 1st floor ceiling above staircase. Principle room to SE; ornate architraved, consoled and corniced doorpiece with intricate foliate/foliaceous plasterwork above cornice. Fine cornice and plaster outlined panels to walls and ceiling. Some boarded wall bathrooms and attic storey servants quarters.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES, BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low, coped, squared and snecked wall to SE enclosing car-park. Higher and in original form to SW with brick lining and square section capped gatepier. Section of brick wall to W, and rubble wall on Mill Street. Late 18th Century barn with stone slate roof to W and adjoining 71 Mill Street. Square section, capped gatepiers with timber gates to NE.