49 High Street, Brechin

49 High Street in Brechin is a well-detailed, two-storey and attic dwelling dated 1881, which may include earlier ecclesiastical fabric. It features four bays and shops on the ground floor, set within an irregular terrace along one of Brechin's main streets. The entrance has a round-arched doorcase with decorative capitalled shafts and a keystone, leading to a consoled balcony with a stone balustrade. The first floor has segmental-arched windows, a band course, an eaves cornice, and a stepped blocking course, along with a channelled pilaster strip on the south side. The building is constructed from dressed, squared, and snecked sandstone, with segmental-headed windows that have stone transoms and mullions, and chamfered arrises.

The entrance elevation faces west and features a deep-set, two-leaf panelled timber door with a semicircular two-part fanlight located in the bay to the left of centre. There is a shop to the outer left with an in-canted door and another shop to the right with a centre in-canted door. The first floor has regular fenestration, with a moulded datestone at the centre and two timber-pedimented, bipartite dormer windows over the outer bays. The rear elevation, facing east, includes a prominent six-light transomed tripartite window that breaks the eaves into a stone dormer head, while a similar window below has its lower lights boarded.

The windows feature 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case frames, with some fixed windows at the rear. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are monumental corniced ashlar stacks with a full complement of polygonal cans. Additionally, there are cast iron downpipes with a decorative rainwater hopper on the northwest side.