Whitewell Lodge, including arcaded screen to garden and wall to service yard

Whitewell Lodge is a mildly Italianate villa of 2 storeys with attic, accompanied by 2-storey and 3-storey service wings. The earlier parts are constructed of hand-moulded brick, whilst the later section built in 1882 uses machine-moulded brick with sill bands. The building has a slate roof and brick stacks throughout.

The asymmetrical west entrance front reveals the building's layered development. The earliest part is the central gabled range. To its right stands a 3-storey southwest service wing, and to its left extends the latest, lower Italianate section built in 1882. This later section features 2-pane sash windows and original rainwater goods dated 1882.

The entrance sits at the left end within the 1882 range, accessed through a lean-to porch hipped on the left side. The porch features a 2-bay arcade with round arches and relief-moulded brick to the imposts, plus a 1-bay return. A panel door under a semi-circular panel (probably replacing an overlight) and a 2-pane sash window sit beneath round heads. Above is a round-headed margin-lit 2-pane sash window with hood mould, and a small-pane window to its left. Brought forward further right is a 3-storey tower with rusticated brick quoins in the lower storey. Round-headed 2-pane sash windows under hood moulds light the lower and middle storeys. The upper stage contains similar paired windows with sill band, above which dentil eaves support a pyramidal roof. Next right is the broad 2-window gable end of the original house, which received a bay window in 1882 incorporating a tripartite 2-pane sash window and parapet with relief-moulded tiles. To its right is an original 16-pane hornless sash window. Above are original 16-pane hornless sash windows under flat arches, similar but smaller attic windows, and a pivoting central attic window. A coped brick courtyard wall abuts the right end of the original house, with an opening featuring an elliptical arch, beyond which lies the southwest service wing.

The north garden front is a 3-window asymmetrical composition with a gabled bay to the left. This bay contains a tripartite sash window in the lower storey, with the central section segmental-headed with keystone, and a segmental-headed upper storey window with keystone flanked by relief panels. Both windows have hood moulds. Set back to the right, the lower storey contains paired 2-pane sash windows under round heads and a segmental-headed sash window further right, all with hood moulds. The upper storey has 2-pane sash windows under flat arches.

The east or rear garden front features a gabled bay on the right side, with an external stack inscribed with a tile panel reading 'SA 1882'. To the left of the stack is a segmental-headed window in the lower storey and a square-headed upper-storey window, both with hood moulds. Next left is the gable end of the original house, which has 2 canted bay windows with 16-pane hornless sashes and similar sashes in the upper storey. Two small-pane iron-frame attic windows incorporate opening lights.

Set forward further left is the southeast service wing with a gable end containing a replacement window in the lower storey and a 12-pane horned sash window above. The east wall has a panel door at the right end, followed by a bow window, 12-pane sash window, narrower 2-pane sash window and 4-pane horned sash window at the left end. The upper storey has three 12-pane horned sashes. A coped garden wall abuts the left end. The gable end of the southeast wing has 2 upper-storey cross windows with coloured glazing, above an attached courtyard wall.

The southeast and southwest wings form a courtyard at the south end. A formerly detached range south of the southwest wing is now attached by an external stair above a pitched roof and boarded doors facing the yard to the west. Its south side, facing the former kitchen garden, has a half-glazed door to the left reached by steps, a 2-light segmental-headed window, a similar window with metal gauze to a larder, and a replacement segmental-headed window right of centre. The upper storey has two 12-pane horned sash windows. In its west gable end are segmental-headed ribbed double doors, and facing the house its upper storey has 4 small-pane horned sash windows under stone lintels and a panelled door right of centre accessed from the external stair.

The southwest wing has a 3-window west wall with 16-pane sash windows and a replacement glazed door left of centre. The middle storey contains an additional narrow 8-pane sash window at the left end, and the upper storey an inserted window left of centre.

At the left end of the entrance front stands an attached 4-bay arcade extending across the garden, featuring round arches, hood moulds and relief-moulded imposts. It has stone coping with ball finials and a wrought-iron gate. The higher terminal pier is crowned with an urn finial. A return wall sweeps down and then steps out to form a revetment defining the north edge of the garden.