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Publication Account
Date 1978
Event ID 1018038
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018038
Robert II about 1377 reputedly granted the burgesses of Montrose land in the High Street measuring eighty feet (24.38m) long and forty feet (12.19m) broad south of the market cross of the burgh in which to construct a tolbooth (Low, 1938, 29). Another tolbooth was erected on the same site in 1467 which today is marked by the Peel Statue. In 1550 the tolbooth received an additional storey and two outside stairs and when a new window was formed the records indicate that glass was put in it (Low, 1938, 29). That tolbooth was removed in 1763 when a Town House was constructed at the southern end of High Street 'according to modern taste' (Sinclair, 1793, v, 32). It was described in 1782 as a large building 'with a handsome front of cut stone: a pediment above and an exchange, with piazzas under it' (Douglas, 1782, 63). An additional storey was added in 1819.
Information from ‘Historic Montrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).
