Whitehall, 22 Shore Road, Aberdour

Whitehall is a house dating from the 1860s, built as a two-story and attic, three-bay rectangular structure. The principal (southwest) elevation is constructed from droved and stugged squared stone with an ashlar base course, band course, and eaves cornice. Decorative paterae are present, and the ashlar lintels above the openings are slightly raised and elaborately carved with anthemion and palmette motifs, except for the dormer windows. Canted ground and first-floor windows are located in the first and third bays. The remaining elevations are of tooled, snecked, squared rubble.

The principal elevation is symmetrical. The central doorpiece features double, tapering pilasters with narrow glazed panels. Flanking this are three-light canted windows with recessed panels in each corner of the base. The first-floor window is centered and features a raised, tapering ashlar surround, with three-light canted bay windows on either side.

The northwest elevation contains a central ground-floor door and an inserted window to the left. A centered first-floor window is also present. The northeast (rear) elevation includes a central, single-story outshot with a window, a door to the return side, and flanking bipartite windows. A tall, round-headed stair window is centrally located on the first floor, flanked by round-headed windows and rectangular windows towards the outer bays. The southeast elevation presents a centered ground-floor door and a first-floor window above.

The entrance door is timber-panelled and includes a letterbox fanlight. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass and horns. There are two canted piended dormer windows above the canted bays on the southwest elevation, and three rectangular piended dormers on the northeast elevation, all fitted with non-traditional windows. The roof is pitched and covered with grey slates, with a piended roof of grey slates on the outshot. Solar panels are present on the southwest elevation. The canted windows have swept polygonal lead covers above the eaves. The roof features ashlar coped skews, corniced gable apex stacks, and circular cans. A decorative rainwater head is located on the far right of the northwest elevation.

The interior features an entrance vestibule with a decorative Minton floor and a tripartite, pilastered timber and glass screen. A timber and glass panel door leads to the main hall, which contains an imperial staircase with ornate cast iron balusters and a timber handrail. Decorative plasterwork adorns the ceilings throughout the ground floor. The stair window is fitted with coloured glass. A large, bracketed arched opening provides access from the main hall to the first-floor stairwell.

The boundary walls are constructed of rubble, with the wall on the southwest side having been raised and featuring rounded coping, while the rest have rubble coping. The principal entrance is located to the south, and is flanked by square-plan ashlar gate piers with shallow pyramidal corniced caps. A side entrance to the north is similarly defined with square-plan, tooled gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps.