White House Farmhouse

White House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with additions from the 19th century. The building has two storeys and an attic in part, along with a 1½ storey brick lean-to added at the rear. It is timber-framed, with the main range encased in brick and rendered on the front, topped with clay pantiles.

The upper floor features three 3-light 20th-century casement windows designed in a traditional style, with a horizontal bar across the lights. The ground floor has two similar 4-light windows with segmental arched heads, all set in shallow reveals. A central 20th-century half-glazed door provides access.

Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a large plain red brick shaft. The interior has evolved into a 2-cell lobby-entrance form, with evidence of a 17th-century extension at the north end indicated by a change in the roof structure. The main beam at the south end has a supporting post, although the brace and a decorative shaft have been removed. This beam features ogee-moulding along its sides and seems to have been part of an open truss. A second post has been added beside it on the upper floor.

Several original tie-beams have been removed and replaced with others, some of which have partitions. The current chimney stack also appears to be a later addition. The change in roof type occurs just north of the stack, where the older roof, of which only a small section is visible, has moulding along the clasped purlins and shallow-arched solid windbraces, while the later roof features two rows of butt purlins.

At the north end of the rear wall, there is a blocked original 4-light window with hollow chamfer moulding on the mullions, which shows signs of weathering and may have been part of a former range extending westwards. A straight flight of stairs was inserted at the south end of the house in the early 18th century, along with the creation of a corridor on the upper floor.