Eaglehall, Whitsome

Eaglehall in Whitsome is a house built in the earlier to mid 19th century, featuring later additions and alterations. It is designed in a plain classical style and has a two-storey T-plan layout with a symmetrical three-bay entrance front and a single-storey addition at the rear. The exterior is made of squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, with polished sandstone dressings that are lightly droved in parts, and rubble sandstone at the rear. The building includes tooled quoins, tooled long and short surrounds to the openings, and projecting cills. There is also a single-storey, two-bay outbuilding to the northwest.

On the south (entrance) elevation, there is a timber panelled door at the centre of the ground floor, topped by a 2-pane fanlight, and supported by consoled brackets beneath a cornice. A single window is located at the first floor. The outer left and right bays feature 3-light corniced, canted windows at ground level, with single windows aligned above them on the first floor.

The west (side) elevation has single windows on both floors, offset to the left of a gabled bay that projects to the outer right. A two-storey wing is recessed to the left, with single windows in the bay to the outer right and a modern patio door at ground level in the bay to the left. A modern window is centered in the single-storey addition to the outer left.

On the east (side) elevation, a gabled bay projects to the outer left, with a two-storey wing recessed to the right. There is a stair window in the bay to the outer left and single windows on both floors in the bay to the right. A lean-to porch fronts a boarded timber door in the single-storey addition to the outer right, with a single window in the bay to the right.

The windows throughout the building feature 2- and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate and has raised stone skews, along with some cast-iron rainwater goods, though some have been replaced. The original block has red brick apex stacks, while there is a rendered apex stack at the rear with octagonal cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997. The outbuilding is constructed of rubble sandstone and has boarded timber doors in both bays, with a sloping roof. Its interior was also not seen in 1997.

The boundary wall, railings, and gate consist of a rubble sandstone wall with round-arched coping enclosing the site to the east, and a lower squared and snecked tooled sandstone wall at the front. Decorative wrought-iron railings with barley-sugar uprights and fleur-de-lys finials are centered above arcaded bays, along with a decorative wrought-iron pedestrian entry gate.