The White House

The White House is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of High Street in Sonning. It is two storeys high, constructed of painted brick, and features a wide eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The west front has three bays, which are divided by panelled pilasters that extend the full height of the building. A bed mould of the cornice wraps around to form a cap, and there is a panelled string at the first-floor level between the pilasters. The windows are vertical sliding sash with glazing bars set in plain reveals, with cills on the first floor and taller windows on the ground floor. The central entrance features a four-panelled door topped by a rectangular fanlight with diamond-pattern glazing, all under a flat hood supported by square posts with incised lines. Access to the door is via a flight of stone steps flanked by outward curving dwarf walls.