White Horses

This is a late 17th or early 18th century house, likely leased to a coachman in 1709, extended to the rear in the early 19th century, and with an attic added around 1945. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a steep roof covered in old red tiles. The house is two storeys and an attic high, facing southeast. An early 19th-century plastered screen wall connects it to the Village Hall (formerly a school) to the left, forming a symmetrical arrangement with No. 41 around the Village Hall. A recent single-storey kitchen extension at the rear, with a slated and weatherboarded finish, is not considered of particular interest.

Inside, there is one large room on each floor, with a smaller room containing the staircase at the rear, added in the early 19th century. The original layout of the ground floor had a shallow front space, with a larger room and staircase behind. Evidence of the original partitions remains visible in the exposed ceiling beams. A red brick chimney is located on the north side and is shared with the adjacent property. The main entrance is a 6-panel door from the early 18th century, set within a moulded architrave. There are small, upright leaded casement windows on either side of the door. A 2-light wooden casement window is on the first floor, and a similar modern replacement is high up in the gable. The gable has a heavy cusped bargeboard.

The jetty is supported by projecting square section joists, and elaborate carved brackets are at each end, once supporting a shield. The right-hand bracket, in the form of a winged horse with strapwork decoration, appears to be original. The left-hand bracket is likely a later replacement. On the south side, there is an early 19th-century single-storey canted bay window with a tiled roof and wooden casements. The house’s design influenced the appearance of No. 41 when the symmetrical grouping around the Village Hall was created, and the rear extension and matching bargeboard were added at that time. This planned village layout was undertaken when the Calvert family owned Hunsdon House. The house is a historically significant late 17th or early 18th-century building, with characterful original features and an important contribution to the formal layout centered on the Village Hall.