7 Whitehouse Terrace, Edinburgh

7 Whitehouse Terrace is a villa built around 1862, featuring a two-storey, nearly rectangular plan with an Italianate entrance tower and a service wing. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone with polished dressings, and includes a base course, a dividing band course, overhanging bracketted eaves, raised and lugged window surrounds, and chamfered reveals on the canted window.

The south entrance elevation has three bays, with a recessed entrance tower on the outer right. This square section tower has four stages, featuring an architraved doorway, a pilastered doorpiece with carved consoles and a cornice, a panelled door, a plate glass fanlight, a round-arched window at the second stage, a bipartite round-arched window at the third stage, and a tripartite round-arched window at the fourth stage. The tower culminates in a pyramidal roof with overhanging eaves. The second bay has a bipartite window at ground level and a single window on the first floor.

The east elevation has two bays, with the entrance tower in the first bay on the left, which is detailed similarly to the south elevation but has a single window at ground floor. The second bay contains a single window.

The west elevation has three bays, featuring a secondary entrance at ground level in the advanced bay to the outer right, with a single window on the first floor. The remaining bays have single windows.

The north rear elevation has single windows in the bay to the outer left, and a round-arched stair window located behind the service wing. The single-storey service wing is positioned to the outer right and includes a small piend-roofed addition to the east. This addition and part of the service wing have overhanging eaves, small pane glazing, a window under the eaves to the east, a window to the north, two windows at ground level to the west, and a window breaking the eaves in a piend-roofed dormer head above. The villa features plate glass sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof, shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks, a corniced ridge stack, moulded square cans, and moulded eaves guttering. The interior was not seen in 1991.

The property is also defined by gatepiers and boundary walls, which consist of panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers. There is a pedestrian gateway through a slapping to the right of the carriage gateway, along with high coped boundary and mutual walls.