Whitacre

Whitacre is a villa built around 1840, believed to be a remodelling of an earlier house. It features colourwashed brick and a Welsh slated hipped roof with broad panelled eaves soffits, along with cast-iron verandahs. The building has a central entrance and a three-bay south elevation.

The exterior consists of two storeys at the front and three storeys at the rear. The south elevation includes a full-width verandah on both the ground and first floors, supported by slender cast-iron columns and storey beams. This elevation has five bays, with the first floor displaying pierced segmental arcade heads, Gothic railings featuring interlaced ogee heads and quatrefoils, and arcaded glazed panels on the sides of the ground floor.

The main elevation is recessed and divided into three bays by shallow pilaster strips. On the first floor, there are tall plain glazed sash windows on the left and right, with tall French windows featuring 12 panes in the centre. The ground floor has two segmental bow windows, each with two plain glazed sashes, and a central two-fold four-panel door topped by a semicircular fanlight with radiating tracery, flanked by slim pilasters and a surround. The verandah is stone paved and has two stone steps. To the right, there is a projecting single-storey polygonal bay window with three sashes and a low-pitched Welsh slated roof with lead roll hips.

The subsidiary elevations show irregular fenestration, with a plat band on the west at first-floor level suggesting the possibility of a comprehensive remodelling of an earlier building on the site. The interior has not been inspected.