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Latitude: 55.0524 / 55°3'8"N
Longitude: -3.5922 / 3°35'32"W
OS Eastings: 298379
OS Northings: 574254
OS Grid: NX983742
Mapcode National: GBR 3BC0.2N
Mapcode Global: WH5WQ.S8LM
Plus Code: 9C7R3C25+W4
Entry Name: Gate Piers, Ellangowan House
Listing Name: Ellangowan House and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 26 June 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 334971
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3818
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ellangowan House, Gate Piers
ID on this website: 200334971
Location: Dumfries
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Nith
Parish: Dumfries
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1869. Asymmetrical 2-storey and attic Victorian Gothic
house with tall 4-stage octagonal entrance tower in re-
entrant angle with lower recessed south wing; billiards room
to rear (east). Snecked bullfaced red ashlar with polished
dressings. Basket-arched, square, shouldered or pointed-
headed openings, with chamfered reveals. Octagonal entrance
tower: square ground floor stage with pointed doorway, under cusped-panelled head, corbelled, circled, balconies with
pierced parapets over chamfered angles; windows in
alternating faces in 3 storeys above; weathervane-finialed
tall facetted roof with lucarnes above corbelled parapet;
tower flanked by gabled windows at 1st floor that to south
wing triple light under pointed arch. West elevation: 3
irregular bays, outer bays advanced and gabled (decoratively
corbelled at left above canted ground floor window);
corbelled 1st floor oriel to right has single supporting
column; latter with foliated capital; bipartite and gabled
dormer head to inner bay; Single small gabled and barge-
boarded dormers to south and to west. Some nail-head
ornament at eaves. Coped gable apex and axial stacks
(projecting chimney breast on south wing gable). Straight
skews; slate roofs - glazed cupola over biliards room.
Interior: some boldly modelled marble chimney pieces;
panelled doors in architraves. Stair has turned wooden
balusters.
Chamfered square gatepiers linked by curved quadrant walls;
taller inner piers ball-finialed. All red ashlar. Decorative wrought-iron gates.
Built for James MacGowan, Chamberlain of the burgh of
Dumfries, who funded the mid steeple restoration (plaque on
mid steeple).
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