5 Montagu Street, Barnhill, Dundee

5 Montagu Street, Barnhill, Dundee is an Arts and Crafts villa built in 1928, designed by J H Langlands. It is a two-storey building, rectangular in plan with symmetrical projecting elements. The exterior is finished with thick harl plaster, a red engineering brick base course, and red dressings, topped with grey/green slates and terracotta ridge tiles. Plain bargeboards are present on the eastern gables. Ground floor windows are timber casements, while first-floor windows are modern timber replacements with side-sliding fittings. Cast-iron rainwater goods and half-hipped roofs on the sides and rear are also visible, along with tall, coped wallhead stacks rising above the eaves.

The eastern elevation features a single-storey bay projecting from the centre, topped with a lunette and a half-hipped roof. Chamfered angles are visible at the main building’s left and right sides at ground floor level, with brick piers supporting a jettied first floor. A window is positioned to the right, and there is a later window and door infill to the left. Four narrow first-floor windows are linked by a brick cill, with brick line decoration above the gable. Recessed bays flank the left and right sides, each containing a window (with a later dormer to the right).

The southern elevation has a flat-roofed, canted window projecting from the central bay, along with a modern rooflight and a chimneybreast to the main building on the left. A window is located on the far left.

The western elevation showcases the main building in the centre with a bipartite window on the ground floor and a smaller bipartite window on the first floor. A blank recessed bay is on the right, and a recessed bay on the left features two doors and a window, with a later dormer above.

The northern elevation displays a bipartite window in the advanced central bay.

Inside, some original fireplaces remain, along with plain moulded cornices. A scale and platt staircase has plain, square-section balusters.

The original plan, commissioned in 1925 for Alexander Sturrock, underwent revisions in 1928 for Mrs Margaret Sturrock, resulting in a change to the layout of the ground floor rooms. The design draws inspiration from cottages constructed at Letchworth Garden Suburb around 1905 and the contemporary work of Frank Mears and J R MacKay. The property was formerly known as The Shielling.