White House Farmhouse

White House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century to the early 17th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with pantiled roofs. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and attics. The main range features a three-cell layout, originally with an internal chimney stack and cross-entry, which has been later replaced by a lobby entrance. The chimney stack has four square attached shafts on a rectangular base with a blank recessed panel.

The farmhouse includes old three-light casement windows with transoms and pintle hinges, as well as two dormers, one with a nearly flat lead-covered roof and another in a similar style on the wing. A 19th-century gabled brick porch with a pantiled roof and narrow pointed windows is located at the front. Inside, the timbering is exposed, with main beams and joists featuring chamfer and lamb's tongue stops, posts with long jowls, and reversed braces at the corners. The upper ceilings are original.

The chimney stack has four hearths: one on the ground floor with a plain timber lintel and moulded brick jambs, another with a brick arch; and on the first floor, one with a uniquely decorated cast-iron hob grate and another with a small four-centred brick arch. The roof consists of short bays with one row of unstepped butt purlins and one row of clasped, diminished principals and windbraces.

At the rear of the stack, there is a stair-wing containing a wide Jacobean dog-leg stair leading to the first floor, featuring turned balusters and newels. The service area remains unheated and is not divided into two. The rear wing, which provided additional service rooms, has two and a half bays with a brick gable end that incorporates a large chimney stack, possibly replacing an earlier smoke bay. The ceiling in part of this area is a plain beam-and-joist design. A newel stair beside the stack leads to the first floor and attic, and the roof displays a curious mixture of butt and clasped treatment of the purlins.