1-4 Caledonian House, Railway Place, Montrose

Caledonian House, located at Railway Place in Montrose, is a former station building designed by J Willett, the SNER Resident Engineer, in 1864. This two-storey and attic structure features three bays and has single-storey side wings. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar, accented with contrasting ashlar dressings and quoins, and includes chamfered and moulded margins, as well as battered cills. The building has a base course and overhanging eaves that reveal exposed rafter ends.

On the north elevation, the main building is centrally located, featuring a round-arched entrance with a fanlight and two-leaf doors that have two round-arched lights in the upper panels. Above this, there is a plain window at the first floor. The flanking bays each have a round-arched window at the ground level and a plain window above. The single-storey wing to the left is divided into two parts: a three-bay section with a pitched roof that includes two round-arched windows and a door, and a flat-roofed section to the left that has a stone-mullioned five-light round-arched window, with a corniced frieze around it. The single-storey wing to the right mirrors the left wing but has a blocked five-light window.

The south elevation, originally facing the platform, is symmetrical. The main building again occupies the center, featuring a round-arched former entrance with a plain window above at the first floor, flanked by small slit windows. The flanking bays have round-arched windows at the ground level and plain windows at the first floor, with canted dormers above. The single-storey wing to the left has a raised wallhead with a cornice that fronts both pitched and flat roofed sections, featuring two round-arched doorways with flanking round-arched windows and a plain doorway on the extreme left. The single-storey wing to the right is symmetrical to the left wing. A modern glazed canopy supported by decorated steel runs along the entire elevation.

The west elevation consists of a two-bay single-storey section with a window on the left and a former doorway that has been converted into a window on the right. The east elevation also features a two-bay single-storey section with two small round-arched windows.

The building has entirely modern replacement glazing that echoes the original design. It has grey slate pitched roofs adorned with cast-iron fleur-de-lys ridge decorations on the main building, as well as ashlar corniced gablehead stacks with shouldered polygonal ends.

The interior has been recently converted for residential use. The boundary walls consist of squared rubble with coping and square-section, capped gatepiers to the north.