The White House

The White House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The house features one large bay facing west, which has an internal stack on the right against the rear wall, and an original lean-to at the back that forms a catslide roof. To the right, there is a 19th-century extension with an axial stack at the right end, and a single-storey extension from the 20th century beyond that.

The house has two storeys. On the ground floor, there is one mid-19th-century sash window with 10 long panes and two 20th-century casement windows. The first floor contains one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights, one mid-19th-century sash window with 8 long panes, and one 20th-century casement window. The entrance features a 20th-century door.

Inside, the original bay has a chamfered transverse beam with stops of indeterminate type, plain joists of vertical section, and a large wood-burning hearth that has a blocked aperture for a former bread oven. The primary straight bracing is exposed in the left wall. Above the first-floor room, there is a tiebeam and principal rafter couple at mid-bay, both housed in the same lap-dovetails in the wallplates. The original floorboards are still present.

Charring at the right end of the roof indicates that there was likely another bay to the right of the stack, which was damaged by fire and replaced by the current 19th-century extension. This type of house is similar to the 'saltbox' houses found in New England and is comparable to Rank's Green Farmhouse in Fairstead. The 19th-century hearth on the right has been blocked, and a new hearth has been created on the other side, facing into the 20th-century extension.