5-6 Castle Place, Montrose

5-6 Castle Place in Montrose is an 18th-century building with early 19th-century alterations. It features a long two and three-storey range that forms an L-plan with 3 and 4 Castle Place. The structure is built of rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and includes a shopfront.

On the northeast elevation, the left section has three storeys due to an internal dividing wall, while the right section has two storeys. The fenestration is irregular, with various blocked and altered openings. In the left section, there is a doorway on the right with a four-panel door and a fanlight featuring radial glazing. To the left, there are two windows, and on the first and second floors, there are two more windows, one of which has a head breaking the cavetto. In the right section, there is a doorway on the left with two-leaf doors and an eight-pane rectangular fanlight. The right side has three bays, with the two outer bays boarded.

The northwest elevation showcases an early 19th-century ashlar shopfront, featuring a central entrance with two-leaf doors and flanking windows. At the first floor, there are stone mullioned tripartite windows in the centre, with the outer lights boarded. The elevation also includes a band course and a blocking course with a raised central section above.

The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is pitched with grey slate, gabled to the southeast and piended to the northwest. Coped skews are present on the southeast and on the party wall. Additionally, there is a brick gablehead stack, two brick ridge stacks, and a capped tympany gable on the right side of the northeast elevation.