Gate Piers, Ellangowan House

Ellangowan House is an asymmetrical two-storey and attic Victorian Gothic house built around 1869. It features a tall four-stage octagonal entrance tower located in the re-entrant angle with a lower recessed south wing, and a billiards room at the rear (east). The exterior is constructed from snecked bullfaced red ashlar with polished dressings. The openings are basket-arched, square, shouldered, or pointed-headed, with chamfered reveals.

The octagonal entrance tower has a square ground floor stage with a pointed doorway topped by a cusped-panelled head. Above this, there are corbelled, circled balconies with pierced parapets over chamfered angles, and windows on alternating faces across three storeys. The tower is capped by a tall facetted roof with a weathervane finial and lucarnes above the corbelled parapet. It is flanked by gabled windows on the first floor, with the southern window featuring a triple light under a pointed arch.

The west elevation consists of three irregular bays, with the outer bays advanced and gabled, the left bay being decoratively corbelled above a canted ground floor window. To the right, there is a corbelled first floor oriel supported by a single column with a foliated capital. The inner bay has a bipartite and gabled dormer head, while small gabled and barge-boarded dormers are present on the south and west sides. The eaves feature some nail-head ornamentation, and there are coped gable apexes and axial stacks, with a projecting chimney breast on the south wing gable. The roofs are slate, with a glazed cupola over the billiards room.

Inside, the house boasts boldly modelled marble chimney pieces and panelled doors within architraves. The staircase features turned wooden balusters.

The entrance is marked by chamfered square gatepiers linked by curved quadrant walls, with taller inner piers topped with ball finials, all made of red ashlar. Decorative wrought-iron gates complete the entrance.