White House Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. Farmhouse.
White House Farm House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-barrel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White House Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the mid 16th century to the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with roughcast and has steeply pitched pantiled roofs. The building is a long four-bay range constructed in two phases, with the earliest two cells located to the right and a two-bay 'unit house' cross wing to the left, forming a T shape in plan. The house has two storeys and attics.
The hall and service range includes four broadly spaced 20th-century casement windows, with entrances positioned between each pair. The doors are half-glazed on the left and boarded on the right. At the centre, between the hall and service addition, there is a ridge stack that was originally external but has been rebuilt at the top. The right gable end features a boarded door leading to the loft and a three-light casement window. The cross wing projects to the left and has a slightly higher ridge, with a gable at the front that contains 19th and 20th-century casements, as well as exposed plates and upper purlins. The two-bay left return has ground floor casements and an axial ridge stack at the rear centre, which has four conjoined hexagonal shafts, a common base, and an oversailing cap. At the rear, there is a lean-to outshut and an early first-floor three-light window with outer leaded lights, along with boarded doors.
Inside, the farmhouse features stop-chamfered axial and cross axial binding beams, close studding, and service doorways with four-centred arched heads. The framing is largely concealed, and there are diamond mullioned window openings. The earliest build includes arched braces in the walling and from jowled posts to tie beams, with collars clasping single purlins. The service addition has a queen post roof. The cross wing contains arched fireplaces, a double purlin roof, lower butt purlins, upper collars, and halved principals clasping purlins with curved windbraces.
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