White Cross House

White Cross House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with additions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is built of grey brick with red brick dressings and has an old plain-tile hipped roof with various brick stacks. The main part of the house is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front. The central doorway has Gothic-style panelling to the base. A 19th-century square brick porch with a four-centred stone arch, carved trefoil spandrels, and carved end stops, is set in front of the door. Two-storey angled bays extend to left and right, featuring stone mullion and transom windows with hood moulds and carved end stops. A flat brick band runs between the ground and first floors. A decorative stone cross-window is located centrally on the first floor, also with a hood mould. Further stone mullion and transom windows are present in the angled bays, again with hood moulds. A flat brick band sits below a battlemented parapet along the eaves, and three gabled dormers project from the roof.

A stone plaque inscribed “The free Land Extends two feet to the southward of this building 1774” is set into the right-hand wing at eaves level.

Inside, the entrance hall features an unusual mid-18th century Chinese Chippendale staircase. Late 18th/early 19th-century doors, with six fielded panels and panelled frame soffits, are also present. The left-hand front room has panels of Gothic blind tracery incorporated as cupboards and a dado, as well as a carved timber Gothic pelmet to the bay window. The right-hand front room has an 18th-century fireplace surround and cornice. Recessed alcoves on either side of the fireplace contain small cupboards with panelled doors. A rear right-hand room has a late 18th/early 19th-century enriched cornice and moulded plaster Adam-style frieze. The kitchen to the left has a tall plain fireplace surround and built-in plain panelled cupboards, a six-panelled door with HL (hand-leaf) hinges. Upper rooms retain various 18th and 19th-century fireplaces and doors. The cellar contains an 18th-century lattice larder door with HL hinges.

19th-century extensions have been added to the left and right sides, constructed of red brick with grey brick headers in Flemish bond, and feature plain-tile roofs. These have two-storey single-window ranges with mullion and transom windows, and a single-storey and attic cross-gabled extension to each end.