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Latitude: 56.7168 / 56°43'0"N
Longitude: -2.4623 / 2°27'44"W
OS Eastings: 371802
OS Northings: 758442
OS Grid: NO718584
Mapcode National: GBR X6.8SWV
Mapcode Global: WH8RK.4FRN
Plus Code: 9C8VPG8Q+P3
Entry Name: 8 Mount Road, Montrose
Listing Name: 8 Mount Road Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 30 March 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 393459
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46227
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200393459
Location: Montrose
County: Angus
Town: Montrose
Electoral Ward: Montrose and District
Traditional County: Angus
Tagged with: Tenement
Later 19th century. 2-storey and attic, double-fronted tenement with tympany gables. Sandstone ashlar, band course above ground floor to E. Chamfered margins.
W ELEVATION: stone forestair leading to tripartite entrances on 1st floor, 3 rectangular fanlights, modern doors, uniting cornice and crowstepped tympany gable above. Windows flanking with small additional window to left. 2 gabled dormers and additional flat-roofed dormer off-set to right.
E ELEVATION: bipartite entrance at ground, rectangular fanlights, modern doors, cornice. Blocked window centred above at 1st floor, crowstepped tympany gable above. Bays flanking; stone-mullioned bipartite at ground floor, 2 windows at 1st floor. Canted dormer to right, modern flat-roofed dormer to left.
N ELEVATION: gable end.
S ELEVATION: gable end.
4-pane timber sash and case windows at ground floor to E, plate glass or replacements elsewhere. Grey slate pitched roof, stone coped skews. Bracketed skewputts. Multi-chromatic brick gablehead and tympany stacks with full complement of polygonal cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: quared rubble boundary walls to E and W enclosing garden. Square section gate piers with pyramidal caps to Mount Street entrance. Square section gate piers to E.
A most unusual design of tenement taking the form of a villa, but also following the upstairs/downstairs front/back arrangement of mid 19th Century model dwellings and later "Colony" housing. It is prominently sited on high ground with views to the Links.
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