White Cottage

White Cottage is a house located on Shop Street in Worlingworth. It was built in two phases: the first part dates back to the 16th century, or possibly earlier, and there is a parlour addition from the mid-17th century. The building is timber framed and plastered, except for the left gable end, which is weatherboarded. It features a thatched roof and stands at one and a half storeys tall. The cottage has various casement windows, most of which are old. On the left side, there is a boarded door and a timber gabled open porch, while a further boarded door is located on the right. A gabled dormer displays the painted date 'AD 1646'. Inside, there is an internal stack with a plain 17th-century shaft. The hall ceiling has plain joists set flat, which may have been inserted into an earlier structure, and there is an open fireplace. At the service end, there are two tie beams with heavy braces that pass through the floor level; one tie beam supports queen-posts with one-way straight braces to the arcade plates. The roof structure has been partly renewed following a fire around 1975. The parlour end features plain first floor studding.