Whitehall

Whitehall is a villa, built in 1835 by John Douglas Sen., and later used as council offices. It has undergone some 20th-century extensions and alterations. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick, with a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. It is L-shaped in plan. The front facing the road is symmetrical with seven bays, and two storeys high. It has a plinth, end pilasters, a band at the level of the first-floor window sills, and projecting eaves. The central bay slightly advances and features a flat, triangular pediment and an Ionic porch with steps leading up to a pair of half-glazed doors set in a simple architrave, flanked by a pair of semi-circular headed niches. A recessed 12-pane sash window is above the door. The remaining bays on this front have recessed fielded panels below the window sills on the ground floor and recessed 12-pane sash windows on the first floor. The garden front has a two-storey canted bay in the centre, and a cast-iron verandah with a tented, felted roof around the ground storey. The end bays contain tripartite windows. A wing extends to the right, built in a similar style. Irregular extensions have been added to the north side.

The interior features a hall open to the roof, lit by an octagonal lantern with an acanthus boss. The hall contains a staircase with delicate iron balusters and a bracketed open string. A room to the right of the hall has plaster-panelled walls, a frieze, and a ceiling in an early 20th-century Neo-Classical style, along with a fireplace featuring giant Corinthian columns. There are panelled shutters to the deep casement windows. A room beyond contains a fireplace in a Jacobean style, featuring reused marquetry panels, a plaster-panelled dado, and a servery with fluted pilasters.