Ellangowan Hotel, 2, 4 St John Street, Creetown

The Ellangowan Hotel, located at 2 and 4 St John Street in Creetown, was designed by architect George W Webb and is inscribed and dated 1898. This granite-built hotel features two storeys and an attic, with a prominent three-gable front and a full-width balcony on the first floor that extends over projecting canted timber windows at the ground level. The exterior is made of squared granite walling, accented with lighter coloured contrasting granite margins.

At the ground level, cast-iron columns support the first-floor balcony and frame the entrance, which is positioned to the left of centre. There are projecting canted windows flanking the door, with one window to the left and two to the right, each featuring outer arched verandahs. On the first floor, six large paired French windows provide access to the balcony, each with a three-pane upper section and plate glass glazing. The attic contains bipartite casement windows in the gableheads, with two-pane lower casements and three-pane upper parts.

At the rear, there is a single-storey wing and mainly bipartite windows on the upper floors arranged in a haphazard manner. The roof features three piended dormers that are recessed, along with one gabled wallhead dormer. The hotel has tall corniced ends and stacks, skews to the gables, and octagonal cans, all topped with good graded slate roofs.

In the courtyard, there is an L-plan granite rubble building with four wide vehicle entrances at ground level and a loft door above. To the left, there is a detached piend-roofed building with a seven-bay open front, supported by granite monoliths that hold up the lintels and roof. This structure is likely used as a cartshed or garage.