The White House

The White House comprises two houses built around 1768 and 1796, located in Westoe Village. They are constructed of red brick with slate roofs and exhibit picturesque architecture with Gothic influences. No. 17, dating to approximately 1768, is a three-bay structure with a coped brick parapet and two dormer windows. An entrance is located in the ground floor bay on the west side. No. 18, built around 1796, is set slightly back from No. 17 and is also of three bays. The central bay of No. 18 projects forward, rises to an attic storey topped with a pediment, and features a lunette window in the attic. A high, crenellated parapet crowns the elevation and abuts the attic storey. A bay window is present in the west bay of the ground floor of No. 18. The central doorway has a pointed arch, flanked by narrow lights. All other windows are "bastard" Venetian, with straight heads only slightly taller than the side lights. Most sash windows have Tudor-shaped heads, and all feature an unusual “lattice” tracery, with the finest example found in the two ground floor windows of No. 18. Around 1895, the two houses were combined into a single dwelling with the addition of ground and first-floor corridors at the rear, designed by J.H. Morton. Further details are documented in "A History of Westoe" by A.C. Flagg, published in 1964.