The White House

The White House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid-16th and 17th centuries. It is a three-cell open-hall house, standing two storeys high with attics. The structure is timber-framed and rough-cast rendered, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at the left-hand end. It features an eyebrow casement dormer and an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are mainly 20th-century casements, although there are several originally unglazed diamond-mullioned windows.

At the front, there is a gabled entrance porch, constructed in the 20th century and covered with asbestos slates, which leads to a boarded door from the 19th century. This house is an open-hall type from the later period, with a cross-passage entrance located within the service end. The chimney, likely original, serves only the hall and is positioned against the cross-passage. Inside, the roof features a crown-post design with an open truss that has a cambered arch-braced tie-beam, with the arch-braces originating from square pilasters. The square crown-post is supported by four-way struts. The walls are close-studded and tension-braced, demonstrating good craftsmanship.

In the mid-16th century, a first-floor structure was added to the hall, and later, attic floors were inserted. An additional rear brewhouse wing was constructed in the early 17th century, featuring a pantiled roof and a distinctive saw-tooth pattern chimney stack made of red brick. The White House is recognized as a good and unusually complete example of the final phase of the medieval open-hall house.