White House Farm House

SK 87 SW NEWTON-ON-TRENT HIGH STREET (east side)

6/44 White House Farm House

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Farmhouse. C15 with early C17, early C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber frame which has been underbuilt in brick and rendered, with pantile roof, part hipped, and 4 brick ridge stacks. L-plan and lobby entry. 2 storey irregular 4 bay front with plinth to right hand side. Off-centre 6 panelled door with one window to left and 2 to right. To first floor are 3 windows. All windows but one to first floor are 3 light glazing bar sliding sashes, the exception being of 2 lights only. The 3 bay roadside facade has further 3 light sliding sashes. To the rear of this range the wall plate is visible, and one angle bay post of the rear wing. Interior. The front range retains massive chamfered girders to ground floor rooms, as well as 5 bay posts of the original timber frame. The rear range, possibly a barn, also retains bay posts and at the end away from the house is a room containing a brick oven and a fireplace with a pyramidal stopped bressummer. To the first floor of the rear range is a lime ash floor, probably inserted, and 2 braced end bay posts are visible; the roof has been renewed. In the front range, bay posts, 2 of which are braced, are also visible at first floor level, as are studded partitions. The roof is a clasped purlin with collars, pegged at the ridge and with larch pole rafters: C17 in its present form, but incorporating earlier elements. The central stack is of wattle and daub construction at roof height. The sawn off rafters of the original rear wall are visible in the roof, proving that the barn to the rear was an addition.

Listing NGR: SK8325474320