Ellerslie House, 15 And 15A Robert Street

Ellerslie House is a two-storey, five-bay end-terrace house built in 1892, later subdivided and extended. It originally stood on a ground slope to the south and east. The house is constructed of painted ashlar with ashlar margins, quoin strips, and a base course on the west side, while the east side features ashlar with a first-floor cill course and eaves cornice.

The west-facing (entrance) elevation has a prominent doorpiece with a deep-set panelled timber door and flanking lights, alongside a tall, round-arched stair window with decorative astragals and coloured glass. Regular fenestration is present, with a further door in the penultimate bay to the left and single windows on each floor at the outer left.

The south-facing elevation displays a gabled form with windows at both ends of the first floor.

The east-facing (rear, former entrance) elevation features a modern conservatory concealing a fine doorpiece composed of channelled voussoirs, a keystone, a segmental-arched doorway with a panelled timber door, pilastered jambs, and coloured leaded glass to a semicircular fanlight. Full-height canted windows rise to slightly reduced dormer windows in the flanking bays, while the right side has a later single-storey extension at ground level, two windows at first floor, and a small semicircular-pedimented dormer window centred above.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 4-pane and plate glass glazing, except for those in the dormers and the ground floor of the west side, which have margined multi-pane glazing in the stair window. Grey slates cover the roof, punctuated by small rooflights. Coped ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks have polygonal cans. The roofs also have ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings are located on the east side.

The interior retains some fine details, including decorative cornices and friezes, timber fire surrounds, and panelled reveals. A segmental-arched screen door with coloured glass is present at the west entrance, while the east entrance has a square-headed screen door with figurative coloured glass and an encaustic-tiled hall floor. The stair window features dated coloured glass with figuratively-detailed medallions.