White House

The White House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid-18th century and conversion to two houses, later reconverted to single occupancy in the 20th century. It is constructed of colourwashed carstone and flint with brick dressings, and has a pantiled roof.

The south front is two storeys high with a three-window range. An entrance door is located to the right of centre, set beneath a segmental arch. The upper floors contain modern two-light casement windows. A T-shaped brick stack rises above the door, with an internal gable-end stack to the west. The gables have ovolo-moulded brick kneelers. The east and west returns indicate that the roof was raised in the 18th century. The west gable features a blocked door and a 20th-century attic window. The west return has a 20th-century casement window on each floor, and similar windows on each floor of the rear outshut, with a 20th-century door leading into the outshut.

The rear (north) elevation has a full-length 18th-century outshut under a catslide roof, rebated at the east end. There are two plank doors, the one on the right opening into an external storeroom. Two 20th-century two-light casements are on the east side, and a 19th-century 12-paned fixed window lights the west side storeroom. A dormer window fitted with a late 19th-century two-light casement is visible. A stack emerges through the roof to the east of the dormer. There is a rebated section with a 20th-century casement and an external stack.

Inside, the parlour on the east side of the stack has a spine beam with sunk-quadrant moulded detail and tongue stops, with a 1970s fire surround covering the fireplace. A blocked external door in the south wall at the east end has shelving fitted. The hall, to the west of the stack, has a chamfered spine beam and a 20th-century fireplace. Two plank doors lead to the outshut. The services area at the west end has a boarded bridging beam connecting with the hall spine beam, indicating that the services east partition wall has been moved further west. A winder staircase is positioned north of the stack, with studwork on the north wall. The outshut contains kitchens at each end. The west kitchen has a plank door leading to a pantry created by partitioning a section of the west storeroom, and the east kitchen has a boarded spine beam.

On the first floor, the east room has an early 19th-century cast-iron hob grate from the Pantheon pattern. The west wall displays one pair of early 17th-century cranked rafters (upper crucks). The centre room has a late 18th-century cast iron Bath grate. The west room is plain and has a second staircase to the ground floor.

The outshut roof is constructed of rafters and one tier of taper-tenoned staggered butt purlins. The main roof is from the 18th century and consists of rafters, one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins, and collars.