1-4 Caledonian House, Railway Place, Montrose

J Willett, SNER Resident Engineer, 1864. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay former symmetrical station building with single storey side wings. Sandstone ashlar with contrasting ashlar dressings and quoins, chamfered and moulded margins, battered cills. Base course. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends.

N ELEVATION: main building to centre; round-arched entrance to centre, fanlight, 2-leaf doors with 2 round-arched lights in upper panels, plain window above at 1st floor. Bays flanking; round-arched window at ground, plain window above at 1st floor. Single storey wing to left in 2 parts; 3-bay pitched roof section with 2 round-arched windows and door, flat roofed section to left with stone-mullioned 5-light, round-arched window, corniced frieze around flat-roofed section. Single storey wing to right symmetrical with wing to left but 5-light window blocked.

S ELEVATION: originally platform front. Symmetrical. Main building to centre; round-arched former entrance to centre, plain window above at 1st floor with flanking small slit windows. Bays flanking; round-arched window at ground, plain window at 1st floor, canted dormers above. Single storey wing to left; raised wallhead with cornice fronting pitched and flat roofed sections. 2 round-arched doorways with flanking round-arched windows, plain doorway to extreme left. Single storey wing to right; symmetrical with wing to left. Modern glazed canopy on decorated steel supports along entire elevation.

W ELEVATION: 2-bay single storey section; window to left, former doorway now window to right.

E ELEVATION: 2-bay single storey section; 2 small round-arched windows.

Entirely modern replacement glazing echoing original. Grey slate pitched roofs with cast-iron fleur-de-lys ridge decoration to main building. Ashlar, corniced gablehead stacks with shouldered polygonal ends.

INTERIOR: recent conversion to residential use.

BOUNDARY WALLS: squared rubble boundary wall with coping and square section, capped gatepiers to N.