White Hall Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with 19th-century additions, it is timber framed with rendered infill and brick in Flemish bond. The roof is covered in plain tiles, with brick end and lateral stacks. It was likely originally a hall-house with a solar. The property is two storeys and has a 3-window front, although the 15th-century range has been truncated on the right. The centre features close studding, while the right side is encased in 19th-century brick, with 19th-century three-light casement windows. The 15th-century central doorway has a moulded timber surround and a pointed arch with foliage carving within the spandrels, with ribbed double doors. Above the door, in the close studding, is a 15th-century timber window with two ogee-headed lights and carved mouchette tracery. A similar 15th- or 16th-century two-light window has been re-used in a 19th-century porch at the right gable end. A timber-framed chamber block dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with close-studded first floor, extends to the front and rear. The front of this section is now encased in 18th-century brick, with a stone panel dated 17? in the gable end. There is a heavily jettied, close-studded gable to the rear, with 19th- and 20th-century casement windows. A 19th-century brick two-window range in the gable of the earlier building at the rear has sash windows on both the ground and first floors. A 19th-century door is set within a 19th-century porch on the right gable end. Inside, the 16th-century range has 16th-century spine beams, with a recently subdivided first floor above and a subdivided ground floor. Curved windbraces are visible in the upper rooms. In a ground-floor room of the 15th-century range, heavily moulded posts rise from the ground and continue into the roof trusses. The 15th-century roof is now located in the first floor. Two trusses remain, with windbraces springing into what was once a truncated wall. Each truss has a moulded cambered tie-beam with elaborately carved bosses: the eastern boss is foliage, the western an angel holding a book. Cambered collars are supported on arcades of four depressed arches. The collars are supported on carved struts. The truss to the west has depressed-arch openings on either side, likely leading to a gallery with a 15th-century window. Possible remains of a screens passage are visible below the west truss.