The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Farmhouse.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-brick-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the late 17th century. It features a coursed rubble sandstone plinth and is timber-framed with brick infill. The roof is made of stone slate, with a local stone end stack on the left and a prominent brick ridge stack with four diagonal shafts to the right of center. The building has two storeys and is arranged in three-and-a-half bays, oriented roughly east to west, with the eastern bay above a rubble-walled cellar.
On the south elevation, there are regularly spaced early 19th-century casement windows. The ground floor windows have 12 panes, while the first-floor windows have nine panes, except for a four-light casement in the chimney half-bay. To the left of center, there is a five-panelled door set in an early 20th-century porch, along with a ledged door to the cellar located in the east gable, which is accessed by a flight of narrow straight steps that may date back to the 17th century.
The timber frame consists of four regular panels from the cill to the wall-plate, now featuring intermediate thin rails, possibly due to nogging replacing the original plaster and wattle infill. There are diagonal struts connecting the corner posts to the wall-plates. The only part of the interior that was inspected is the cellar, which has lamb's tongue run-out chamfer stops on its two ceiling beams and two sets of stone stairs that previously provided access to the ground floor room above.
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