Elpalet, including gatepiers, 250 East Kilbride Road, Rutherglen

This building was designed in circa 1914 and is a large 2-storey castellated villa, with some Tudor design influences, constructed of concrete and brick. The exterior of the building is rendered white, and it has parapetted and crenellated wallheads. There are two projecting canted bays to the principal (east) elevation, of varying width and depth. There is a single storey Tudor-arched square porch on the south elevation. There are some hood-moulded single windows and entrances, and the larger windows have timber mullions and transomes with a central arch detail. There is some modern glazing, predominantly to the rear (west) elevation. At the rear of the house there is a forestair and single full-height canted bay with a cat slide roof swept over. The roof is partly pitched and slated, and part flat.

The interior was partially seen in 2016. The building was subdivided into 4 dwellings in the early 1960s. There is some detailed plasterwork and wood panelling to several rooms. Ground level entrance vestibules retain some marble geometric pattern flooring, and that to the south has a domed ceiling in the circular entrance hall leading from the porch with a tiled mosaic floor.

There are three gatepiers to the northeast entrance of the semi-circular drive and they are crenellated in the same style as the villa wallheads.