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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

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  • Council Angus
  • Parish Montrose
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Architecture Notes

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.

Activities

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).

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