Forfar, 4, 6, 8 East High Street

The High Street has been the main thoroughfare of the town from the middle ages. Many excellent nineteenth-century properties are still standing, with, here and there, some of an earlier period. 2 East High Street is particularly worthy of note, not merely for its attractive late eighteenth-century architecture, but also for the pend within it that leads down to Osnaburg Street, opened up from 1873, when the town began to expand both in population and wealth, due to its production of osnaburg fabric (seep 25}. Next door, at 4- 8 East High Street, are properties with original ground-floor shops. One has been unspoiled by modernisation and is a good example of the type of commercial property to be found on this prime site, at the market centre, around 1800.

Information from ‘Historic Forfar: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (2000).