White House Farmhouse

TM 39 NW MUNDHAM BERGH APTON ROAD

3/42 White House Farmhouse 5.9.60 II

House. (The descriptions of this house and Abbey Farmhouse Item No. 3/43 q.v. are transposed on the previous list). C17. Rendered timber frame. Thatched roof. 3-cell lobby entrance type plan. Facade of 4 bays, 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. C20 windows. C20 door with flat hood between third and fourth bays. 4 C20 windows to upper floor. C19 axial stack; off-centre axial stack with 2 truncated polygonal shafts.

Interior: The right hand room has exposed close-studding; ovolo moulded cross-beam with bar stops and recessed soffit and a brick fireplace splayed inside and with chamfered jambs, its lintel has been replaced. There is a small reset ovolo-moulded window in the back wall of the right hand room. The centre room has wall posts with moulded capitals supporting a chamfered cross-beam with notched run-out stops and a new fireplace. The small unheated left hand end room has a cross beam with thin chamfers and large chamfered joists. On the first floor the right hand end has large wall posts with gunstack jowled heads and an ovolo-moulded blocked window in the rear wall. The right hand end bedchamber has chamfered tie-beam ovolo-moulded ceiling beam and a brick fireplace with chamfered 3- centred arch.

Listing NGR: TM3341598022