The White Cottage

The White Cottage is a pair of houses that were built in the early 18th century for the west house and in the mid-18th century for the east house. Both houses were raised in height in the late 18th century and were converted into a single dwelling in the mid-20th century. The exterior is made of whitewashed brick with pantile roofs.

The north front is two storeys high and features a four-window range. Originally, each house had a symmetrical two-window range with doorways between the windows, but the doorway to the east house is now blocked. The doorcase of the west house has an eared surround beneath a bolection-moulded pediment, and it contains a six-panelled fielded door, with the upper two panels glazed. There are horned sash windows on either side of the door and unhorned sashes on the first floor. The east house has one horned sash window on the ground floor and unhorned sashes on the first floor. A dentil eaves cornice runs along the entire facade, and there are internal gable-end stacks at both ends, as well as a central ridge stack.

The rear elevation also shows the butt join and dentil eaves cornice, with fenestration consisting of horned sashes and two-light casements. There is a late 19th-century hipped single-storey extension to the west and a 20th-century conservatory. The gable ends of both houses display brick tumbling in two tiers, indicating the raising of the roof.

Inside, the west ground-floor room features an unmoulded spine beam, an inglenook fireplace, and a four-panelled door leading to the hallway. There is a long hall corridor from the north external door, with a 20th-century staircase at the south end. The next room to the east has a rebuilt fireplace and a formerly external leaded glazed window. The east end has two rooms that have been converted into one, with bridging beams supported on a brick pier, and a winder staircase at the east end. The first floor has a full-length corridor on the south side. The roof structure of the east end includes principals, secondaries, collars, and one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins, while the west end has principals, secondaries, two tiers of collars, and two tiers of butt purlins, with some windbraces present.