Elphinstone Tower

Elphinstone Tower is a 2-storey L-plan Baronial villa, likely designed by Peddie and Kinnear and dated 1865. The building is constructed of stugged cream sandstone that is squared and snecked, featuring plain, droved, and stugged ashlar dressings. It has a base course, crowsteps, and beak skewputts, along with stone mullions. The first-floor windows break the eaves in steeply pitched gabled dormerheads.

On the north (entrance) elevation, the doorway is set in a round tower located in the re-entrant angle. It has a moulded surround with a fleuron and a hoodmould, with a blank armorial panel above. The entrance features a boarded door and a plate glass fanlight, with a hoodmould over a narrow first-floor window. The steep candle-snuffer roof is finished with lead flashing and a ball finial. To the left, the gabled wing is advanced and has a window on each floor. There are narrow hall and stair windows flanking the tower on the right, and a window in each bay to the outer right.

The south elevation consists of three irregular bays, with the outer bay on the right gabled. There are two bipartite windows at ground level and three first-floor windows. An ornate armorial panel is prominently set between the first-floor windows on the left.

The west elevation features double gables, with a window in each floor of each bay and carved panels in the gableheads. The date is inscribed on the right panels, while initials are on the left. Gablehead stacks are present.

On the east elevation, there is a gabled bay to the left with a window on each floor. A tall single-storey gabled service wing projects to the left, with a lower piend-roofed block adjoining to the east, which may be an earlier structure that was altered when incorporated in 1865.

The windows are fitted with a small-pane glazing pattern in sash and case style, and the roof is covered with grey slates. The ashlar coped ashlar stacks add to the architectural detail.

Inside, there is a winding cantilevered stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade. The bedrooms feature horseshoe grates in the angle chimneypiece.

The gatepiers and garden walls consist of corniced ashlar gatepiers located to the northwest of the house, topped with stepped pyramidal caps, and rubble garden walls.