Whitehouse Farmhouse

Whitehouse Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse that has been altered in the 18th century. It is constructed primarily of clunch with some carstone, featuring brick dressings. The roof is covered in blue glazed pantiles and has gable parapets, with internal stacks located at either end and a central axial stack. The building is four bays wide, with two storeys and an attic. The western part of the building was originally raised to one-and-a-half storeys, with a timber frame that has been enclosed and re-roofed at a shallower pitch in the 18th century.

The principal facade, which faces south, shows a full-height vertical joint between bays three and four. There's a garderobe chute in flint and brick at the left angle. The doorway between bays two and three is topped with an open pediment and has panelled reveals, leading to a six-panelled door with the upper two panels glazed. The window openings are varied and altered; it has casements to bay one, a fixed window on the ground floor and a six-paned sash window to the first floor of bay two, a first-floor casement only in the third bay, and six-paned flush sashes in bays three and four, with windows also visible in the eaves.

The western return elevation has a brick plinth, rendered brick and flint, with clunch above the eaves. It features two small openings to the chimney bay stair and to the first floor on the right. A windowless addition is situated on the left side, built in English bond and covered with pantiles, with a stack on the west wall.

The north facade has a carstone and flint plinth, with walls made of flint, carstone, and brick, and a decorative brick cornice. There's a two-bay, two-storey forward wing attached to bay four. Again, the window openings are varied; bay one has a part-glazed door, a doorway with 18th-century brick jambs and a flat arch, and a renewed three-light casement above. Bay two features a flush sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and a three-light casement on the first floor. Bay three has a blocked doorway on the left and three-light casements on both ground and first floors. The fourth bay has a doorway with a gabled canopy to the left, and a forward wing to the right.

Inside, the roof structure includes an eight-bay, three-tier butt-purlin arrangement with oak principal rafters and split pine rafters. Internal walls are made of clunch, and the west gable has been raised. The attic floor to the west is lower than the present eaves. The floor is made of 34cm oak boards. In the western two cells there are principal beams and window lintels with bar-stopped chamfered beams, large ceiling joists; the west gable end fireplace has a massive beam above with a salt hole to the left and an encased staircase to the right. The first floor has timber uprights and rails, some of which are encased or have been removed. There is a timber-studded partition wall between bays three and four with wavy braces, and a moulded beam to the gable end fireplace. A door to the stair has wide boards and splayed hinges.