White Roses

White Roses is a house that was formerly the vicarage, dating back to the early 16th century with later alterations around 1700 and in the 19th century. The original structure is timber-framed and features a jettied design with a three-unit plan and a two-storey gabled porch on the south-east elevation. The service end on the south-west side is partly encased in local red brick from around 1700, which includes a side stack and a roof that has been rebuilt as a hip. The parlour wing was replaced in the late 19th century with a red brick and tile wing after a fire. There is a 19th-century brick and plain tile lean-to to the left of the porch, and to the right, a 19th-century gabled porch that reuses medieval clunch stone with a four-centred arch. The rear wing, dating from the 18th century, has a date stone from 1516 that has been reset. The building is two storeys high, with some timber framing exposed, along with brick nogging and plastered areas. It features a moulded eaves cornice and an 18th-century entrance with a six-panelled door. The windows include two horizontal sliding sash windows with eight panes, one 18th-century twelve-paned hung sash window to the right of the door, and one small casement window. Inside, there is very fine folded ribbon decoration on the roll-moulded cross beams and joists, with roll and cyma moulding and leaf stops in the hall and original porch. The jamb for the cross passage door remains. The inglenook hearth has an 18th-century overmantel, and there is a bolection-moulded chimney piece in the first-floor room. The staircase, located in its original position, is early 18th-century and features pierced flat balusters. The side purlin roof has earlier associations with the river trade, lying south of a dock with access to The Hythe.