The White House

The White House is a house dating from circa 1674, with extensions from the 18th century, originally built for the Acklam family. It is constructed of brick and cobbles, rendered and colourwashed. The house is two storeys high with cellars and attics, originally four bays wide, with a later extension to the left. The original design features a central direct entry plan and an outshut for the staircase to the rear, later extended to the right to form a scullery. A high chamfered plinth has been cut down in places. The front door is a six-panel door with an overlight under a segmental head. There are two four-pane sashes to the left and one to the right. A cavetto-moulded band runs along the first floor. Three four-pane sashes are present on the first floor. The left extension has a four-pane sash on the ground floor to the right and a tripartite sliding sash with glazing bars to the left. The first floor window to the right is a four-pane sash. The rear elevation incorporates a three-light wooden mullioned window with leaded panes, including central roundels, in the staircase wing. A stepped brick eaves cornice sits above the roofline. A dormer incorporates a sliding sash with glazing bars, and there are end and axial stacks. Raised gables are also present.

The interior retains numerous original features, including a ground floor room on the right containing an overmantel with pilasters and cornice enclosing an oil painting on boards depicting a naval battle, alongside a round-headed alcove. A ground floor room on the left, likely originally the kitchen, has flanking cupboards to one fireplace. The closed string staircase features a bay leaf and riband frieze to the string, newels with ball finials and turned pendants, and a moulded handrail. The bottom newel is supported by a console bracket enriched with stylised bay leaves. A right-hand room on the first floor has a bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel with pilasters and a cornice, enclosing a painting of Moses striking the rock. The left-hand room on the first floor includes a bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel with pilasters, enriched with drops, and a cornice, enclosing a painting of Noah and the Ark. The majority of doors are bolection-moulded and hung in eared architraves, while cupboard doors are late 17th/early 18th century and retain their original hinges. A cellar is located beneath the stairwell and a pantry beneath the stairs, with a three-panelled door on iron hinges likely representative of the original pattern of doors throughout the house. The Acklam family were noted Quakers, among the first to be convinced in the East Riding, and several early family members are commemorated by grave-markers in the garden to the rear.