The White House

The White House is a house that likely dates from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and significant modifications and extensions in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It features a stuccoed brick exterior on a timber frame and has a green slate roof topped with a 17th-century chimneystack that has clustered polygonal shafts. The house is two storeys tall and has an early 19th-century Gothic front with seven windows. There is a square central porch supported by clustered shafts and adorned with a traceried frieze. The ground floor has arch-headed sash windows with ogee top lights, flat hood moulds, and reeded panel shutters, while the first floor features curved hoods over the windows. The south gable end is roughcast and includes a canted Gothic sash window on the first floor. The rear elevation has two and a half storey gabled wings to the north and south, each with Regency bow windows on the ground floor featuring three 6/6 sash windows. Above these are single sashes with reeded architraves. Between the wings, there is a bridge supported by clustered Gothic shafts leading to a ground floor loggia. The interior is notable, featuring early 18th-century panelling and a central staircase, along with a later 17th-century oak newel stair in a square well located in the southwest corner. There is also an early 17th-century painted beam and panels behind the panelling on the north staircase wall. To the north side, the house continues with a late 19th-century single-window extension made of painted brick and roughcast, topped with a steeply pitched old red tile roof and featuring a six-light small pane casement on the ground floor. The main front is flanked by quadrants of Regency wrought iron railings, which were formerly continuous to the porch.