White House Farmhouse

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW MALT HOUSE LANE, Terry's Green 652-1/2/211 (West side (off)) 08/11/91 White House Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: STRATFORD ON AVON TERRY'S GREEN Whitehouse Farmhouse)

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Farmhouse, now house. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations including range of c1980s to right. Timber-framed with painted brick and plaster infill panels, gabled plain-tile roof and renewed brick central and left ridge stacks. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 2-room plan, box frame of 3 bays, the right (south) room heated by axial stack, the left (north) room formerly unheated. 4 large corner studs and middle rail with small square panels of timber-framing and diagonal braces. Off-centre left entrance: C20 plank door in C20 timbered porch. Mainly C20 windows throughout. Small 3-light window with lead cames to left. Small window to centre and 2-light casement with lead cames to right. First floor: central small canted bay window between 2-light windows, all with lead cames. Rear: exposed square frames to left part; 2 C20 bay windows on ground floor and C20 casements. Weatherboarding to right gable end. INTERIOR: much of the timber-frame is exposed. Massive deeply-chamfered tie-beam to central room and chamfered spine beam to right, exposed rafters. Room to right has rebuilt inglenook. C20 staircase against front wall. Roof has exposed purlins and wind braces, massive right end tie-beam; exposed chamfered wall plate; chamfered queen struts exposed internally to right. Jowled corner studs. (Victoria County History: Warwickshire, Kington Hundred: 167).

Listing NGR: SP1040373421