White House

KIMBOLTON HIGH STREET TL 095675 (SOUTH-WEST SIDE) 6/43 NO. 33 24.10.51 (WHITE HOUSE) GV II*

Late C17 house with late C18 or early C19 street facade and early C19 rear wing. Two storeys and attics with stair turret to rear. Local brick, painted and rendered on street facade. Substantial internal timber-framed trusses. Plain tile roof with parapet gables and end stacks. Roof of rear wing shallow pitched and slated. Modillioned eaves cornice. Three flat roofed dormer windows with modern casements. Six recessed first floor hung sash windows with glazing bars in moulded wooden frames and two similar windows flanking each side of doorway approached by two stone steps. Six panelled door with webbed fanlight in round headed arch. Doorcase with panelled reveals, panelled pilasters, and dentil enrichment to broken triangular pediment. Interior has part of original late C17 staircase at attic level, three lower flights replaced by early C19 stair- case. Complete panelled room to north-west. Sealed inglenook hearth in kitchen. C17 slatted cellar door. Original roof trusses. Attached, early C19 stable block of local brick forms boundary range to north-west. RCHM (Hunts) p174 (plate 174).

Listing NGR: TL0988967807