White House

The White House, originally built as the Brinkburn Estate Office in 1856 or 1857, has been converted into two cottages in the late 19th century and later into a single house. The building features a mix of rubble and brick that is rendered and whitewashed, with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof. It has an H-plan layout and is a single-storey structure with a symmetrical facade consisting of five narrow bays, flanked by projecting gabled end bays.

The building has a plinth and a central vertical-panelled door with a margined overlight. The windows are margined sash types, with tripartite arrangements in the end bays and blind slits above. All openings are framed in raised stone surrounds. The central section has a moulded cornice, while the end bays feature gable coping on moulded kneelers. There are two stepped-and-corniced ridge stacks at the center and one similar ridge stack on each wing.

The left return has a two-bay arrangement with a vertical-panelled door and a three-pane overlight between 12-pane sash windows, while the right return has similar sash windows. The rear extensions added in the late 19th century are not considered of special interest.