White House

White House is a house built in the second half of the 14th century, with early 17th century additions. It was restored and extended at the rear between 1972 and 1973. The building features a timber frame and plastered exterior with a plain tiled roof, and it has two storeys plus an attic. The house includes a former open hall of raised-aisle form, along with storied service and solar ends. Most windows are mid-20th century casements, but there are some 16th and 17th century windows with diamond and ovolo-moulded mullions, as well as the upper part of an original diamond-mullioned hall window at the rear. There is a mid-20th century door into the service end and four gabled dormers on each roof slope.

The interior has been modernised, but much of the structure is exposed. Both original cross-passage doorways remain, along with paired doorways into the service rooms, which feature tall two-centred arches. There is evidence of original screens between the cross-passage and the hall. The raised-aisle structure is largely intact, with queen-posts of cruciform section and heavy arched braces meeting to form a two-centre arch. The square crown post has a pronounced double jowled head, which is an unusual feature, and there is two-way bracing to the collar purlin, along with arched side ties to the top plate, one of which is concealed. The roof is mostly intact, with all components showing signs of soot. The open truss has traces of original red ochre decoration. A late 16th century inserted floor features chamfered joists, with those at the lower end supported by an additional bridging beam parallel to the original one that carries the open truss. A stack was inserted into the solar, against the upper end of the hall, and the solar end was extended by one bay in the early 17th century, with the attic floor supported on upper crucks.