Easter White House, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk

Complex amalgam of buildings of different dates,

possibly unfolding as follows: earlier 18th century 2-

storey house, with attic and cellar, adjoined to N by

mid to later 18th century house and later 18th century

houses to SE; early 19th century linking section to SE

and earlier 19th century to NE; further later additions

and alterations. Small courtyard formed at centre; sub-

divided post 1953. White painted harled with painted

ashlar dressings; some with chamfered arrises.

WHITEHOUSE: earlier 18th century house with 3 irregular

bays to W; corniced and lugged doorway with pulvinated

frieze; panelled door, upper panels glazed; windows in

flanking bays at ground; 3 irregularly spaced, narrow

windows under eaves above. 2 windows to ground and

1st floor on gabled S elevation and 1 attic window.

Steeply pitched gables; end stacks. Mid to later 3-bay

house adjoined to N gable, and slightly recessed, with

higher eaves and regular windows to W, in each bay; 1st

floor windows probably enlarged; 2 large, later windows

at 1st floor on N gable; broad gablehead stack.

19th century piend-roofed addition to E corner with

regrettable modern French window inserted at ground,

and 2 1st floor windows to N.

INTERIOR: early 19th century panelling to entrance

sitting room and 1st floor drawing room; 20th century

marble scale and platt staircase addition; Adamesque

chimneypiece; coomb ceiling with decorative plasterwork

to drawing room, and niche with shell motif. Mural

landscape paints probably 18th century, at 1st floor.

EASTER WHITEHOUSE: corniced doorway to S, in narrow

3-bay corniced linking block with blocking course; 2-

leaf panelled doors; bipartite, stone mullioned windows

flanking at ground, and large 1st floor window at

centre; grey slates and E end stack. Late 18th century

irregular 3-bay gabled blocks to E, at right angles to

linking block; door in lower bays to S, with swept

dormerheads added later to left; brown pantiles. Higher

eaves to 3 irregular bays to right; red pantiles.

Further additions to E and entrance.

Variety of glazing patterns, predominantly small-pane

and sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews.

RETAINING WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: rubble

retaining walls to S, enclosing grounds by Crookston

Road and Whitehouse Cottage, and gardens to N and E;

weathered, corniced ashlar gatepiers with ball

finials; 2-leaf arrowhead gates. Low ashlar coped wall

with arrowhead railings to S and W. Decorative wrought-

iron gates to garden.