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Montrose, High Street, Town House
Town House (14th Century)
Site Name Montrose, High Street, Town House
Classification Town House (14th Century)
Canmore ID 36271
Site Number NO75NW 56
NGR NO 71452 57791
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36271
- Council Angus
- Parish Montrose
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
INFORMATION TAKEN FROM THE ARCHITECTURE CATALOGUE:
ARCHITECT: John Hutcheon 1763
William Smith, Montrose - additions 1818
REFERENCE:
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY:
S.M.T. Magazine, June 1951.
Publication Account (1978)
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).