The White House White House Cottage

The White House and White House Cottage are an early 17th-century house and cottage, with additions from the later 17th century, and alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. The White House, undergoing renovation at the time of survey, incorporates a crosswing and one bay of a main range, with outshuts to the rear. The crosswing is partially built on a stone plinth and has cement-render covering the timber framing; it has two storeys with a partial cellar and attic. The main range has a two-storey, three-bay design. The crosswing has a stone plinth on the ground floor, with a restored window flanked by small, square framing, and moulded corbels supporting a slight jetty. The upper floors each have a central window; the framing is rendered over. The main range includes a gabled porch to the right of a window on each floor. The rear of the crosswing displays exposed corner posts, close studding beside an external brick stack, an exposed principal-rafter truss, and later framing showing raised eaves. The left return has three bays with a central door; the framing is rendered. The right return of the crosswing exhibits exposed framing beneath a carved bressumer and a restored wooden mullioned window on the first floor. White House Cottage has a gabled porch to the left, with two two-light casements on each floor. A large stack is located at eaves between bays two and three, and the eaves of bay three are set at a lower level.

The interior of The White House's main range features a relaid quarry-tile floor, square framing to an internal rear wall, a transverse ceiling beam with stop-chamfered stops, chamfered joists, and a fireplace backing onto the crosswing, which has a wooden bressumer. The crosswing includes a fragment of wall painting with a Latin inscription in one front room, and a rear room with an arched recess and an early 19th-century fireplace featuring an iron firebasket within a wooden surround with a fluted keystone and triglyphs. Service bells are located above the cellar steps. An oak staircase features square newels, while oak floor boards are present throughout. Various boarded and panelled doors are also incorporated. The interior of White House Cottage exposes square framing in the internal rear wall and in the party wall with The White House; there is also exposed wattle infill and a principal rafter truss. Two ground-floor doorways into the north end have elm frames, one with an elm boarded door. Oak ceiling beams and floor boards complete the interior.