White House Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the early 15th century, with an addition built to the right in the 16th century. The farmhouse is timber-framed and plastered, although the rear wall is weatherboarded. The front facade has widely-spaced applied studding added in the 20th century. The roof is pantiled. It is a building of one and a half storeys with four windows, which are 19th and 20th century casements. There is a plank front door and two small gabled dormers. Inside, there is an internal stack and, against the left gable end, a lean-to addition and another small stack. It was originally an open hall house, with one end (likely the solar end) rebuilt in the 16th century when the stack was inserted. The main hall comprises two bays and retains its original roof, heavily sooted from smoke, with a queen-post and a ridge piece. The queen-posts are cross-quadrate in section. There are two additional tie beams in what is presumably the lower bay of the hall, but no evidence of them in the upper bay. A 16th-century inserted ceiling features a bridging beam with solid arched braces to the wall posts, and chamfered joists with run-out stops. The hall fireplace has a moulded and embattled lintol. The 16th-century addition has a ground-floor ceiling with chamfered joists. A 16th-century newel staircase is also present.