White House Farmhouse

White House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with painted brick infill and painted brick underbuilding on the ground floor, topped with a slate roof. The building is in an L-shape, featuring a long hall range that appears to have 2½ framed bays and a shorter cross-wing, likely of 2 or 3 bays, which projects to the north. It has two storeys with a gable-lit attic in the cross-wing.

On the south elevation, the hall range has two square panels on the first floor, which have been largely rebuilt and painted black and white to imitate traditional framing. The gable end features a collar and tie beam truss. The cross-wing displays herringbone patterns on the first floor, which are also repeated on the left return. It has a jettied attic supported by a 20th-century bressumer on corner brackets, with square panels and light diagonal struts in the gable. The first floor and attic of the cross-wing have 19th-century casements, as does the center of the hall range on the first floor. The remaining windows on the right side of the hall range on the first floor, as well as three on the ground floor and one on the ground floor of the cross-wing, are all from the 20th century.

A prominent mid-19th-century gabled brick porch is located over a flush six-panel door to the right of the cross-wing. There is a notable red brick stack in front of the ridge to the left of the hall range, along with a stepped external end stack to the right, which has been rebuilt in early 20th-century red brick.

On the north elevation, the framing is similar to that of the south side, except that the attic of the cross-wing retains its original plain bressumer with mutilated carved decoration supported on 20th-century carved brackets. The first floor and attic of the gable have 20th-century casements, while the ground floor features a 20th-century casement as well. Below the eaves of the hall range, there are three 19th-century horizontal sliding sashes. A full-length brick lean-to, dating from the 19th or 20th century, extends below and continues around as a single-storey hip-roofed lean-to to the left gable end.

The interior was not accessible during the last survey in January 1987, but it was noted that the north wall of the hall range, behind the lean-to, has a 17th-century plank door.