This three storey, eight sided, stone water tower was designed by William Middleton and built in 1841 to produce better drinking water for a town that lay on a low spit of land between Montrose Basin and the North Sea. Originally called the Lochside Cistern, it was designed in a Tudor style to fit in better with the victorian villas in the street. After becoming surplus to requirements it was B-listed on 11 June 1971 and became more and more dilapidated for thirty years before being bought and converted into a private residence on four floors. It is easily spotted north of the town centre on the east side of the main road heading north. On the 1st edition OS map it is depicted as a reservoir. On the 2nd edition OS map it is depicted as a pumping station for the Montrose Water Works. It is an octagonal three-storey tower with Tudor-gothic detailing. The frontage is of sandstone ashlar, rusticated at the ground-floor, and the masonry is squared and snecked to the rear. There is a parapet with corner pinnacles and gables on alternate sides. The margins are deeply chamfered, and the cills battered. The windows to front west elevation have stepped heads and hoodmoulds. There is a stone-mullioned tripartite with a stepped head on the second floor of the north elevation. The roof was used for fire watching during the Second World War. It was converted to residential use in the 1970s.
This three storey, eight sided, stone water tower was designed by William Middleton and built in 1841 to produce better drinking water for a town that lay on a low spit of land between Montrose Basin and the North Sea. Originally called the Lochside Cistern, it was designed in a Tudor style to fit in better with the victorian villas in the street. After becoming surplus to requirements it was B-listed on 11 June 1971 and became more and more dilapidated for thirty years before being bought and converted into a private residence on four floors. It is easily spotted north of the town centre on the east side of the main road heading north. On the 1st edition OS map it is depicted as a reservoir. On the 2nd edition OS map it is depicted as a pumping station for the Montrose Water Works. It is an octagonal three-storey tower with Tudor-gothic detailing. The frontage is of sandstone ashlar, rusticated at the ground-floor, and the masonry is squared and snecked to the rear. There is a parapet with corner pinnacles and gables on alternate sides. The margins are deeply chamfered, and the cills battered. The windows to front west elevation have stepped heads and hoodmoulds. There is a stone-mullioned tripartite with a stepped head on the second floor of the north elevation. The roof was used for fire watching during the Second World War. It was converted to residential use in the 1970s.