Essentially an early nineteenth-century brick house with stone dressings, built in 1836 on an earlier site within Cheswardine parish. The previous house appears, from a drawing of 1835, to have been a close studded, timber-framed structure of various dates, with a gabled porch containing an arched entrance.

As it now stands, Ellerton comprises the symmetrical early nineteenth-century entrance front of two storeys, with triple gables, the centre one projecting and having a tripartite tapered, arched headed opening within which is set the front door. The centre window above the door, like the first floor windows on two bays to each side, has a tapered head and pronounced drip mould. To the right hand side of this block is an early twentieth-century extension with twin gables, to match those of the earlier house, and two windows at first floor level. The bricks and stone were so well matched, it is almost imperceptible. Paired windows again occur on the ground floor of the outer gable, whilst the inner one has a pair of French doors that lead out from the large living room that the extension contains.

The earlier house at Ellerton Hall had been owned by the Soudley (or Sowdley), Wedgwood and Eyton families. Lucy Wedgwood (1647–1698), who had married Philip Eyton of Eyton, was the owner in 1672. She was paying Hearth Tax on eight hearths at Ellerton in the same year that she was widowed. Her son, Soudley Eyton (1669–1701), inherited, but on his death the estate passed to his uncle and was then sold to John White of Trentham (later known as John White of Cherrington).

By the middle of the eighteenth century, Ellerton was owned by Joseph Tomkinson (d.1761) who appears to have come into the property through his wife, Mary. The Tomkinson’s daughter Elizabeth (bapt. 1733) married the Edgmond farmer William Taylor, in 1761. Taylor is said to have been descended from the Taylors or Tayleurs of Rodington (q.v.).