The White House

The White House is a house, now divided into two houses, built around 1740 for the Beechwood Estate. The southwest wing was converted into two houses in the early 19th century, with one house further divided in the early 20th century. The structure is made of red brick in English bond with some black headers, painted on the exterior, and features a weatherboarded timber-frame rear outshut with a brick-walled bakehouse. The painted brick rear wing has brick-on-edge detailing on the first floor. The gable triangles are timber framed with exposed timbers, and the roofs are steep and covered in old red tiles.

This two-storey house has a symmetrical northern front with four windows on each floor and a recess above the central door. The front features a plinth and an ovolo-moulded eaves course with projecting headers. The ground floor has three-light casement windows with segmental arches. The entrance includes a plank door set in a heavy frame, topped by a tiled gabled rustic porch. The lower two-storey southeast rear wing has a gable chimney, a lean-to outshut, and a porch at the southeast angle.

The internal layout is a four-bay plan with an internal chimney and a lobby entry. Projecting gable chimneys and staircases beside them were likely added during the 19th-century division, when a large bread oven was probably built behind the central chimney, replacing the original staircase. The roof features clasped-purlin construction with collar and tie-beam trusses and straight wind-braces at the gable ends. The wider bays flank a narrow chimney bay in the middle, with the end bays being shorter. There is a fire surround dating to around 1815 with a fret front cast iron grate. Additionally, there are separate rainwater and drinking water wells at the rear. The house is marked as Valley Lane Cottage on maps.