The White House

The White House is a house located on Faringdon Road, likely dating back to medieval times, with a right wing that was built in the late 17th century. The front and left side walls are rendered, while the rear wall is made of uncoursed limestone rubble. The left wing features medieval coursed and dressed limestone, with large masonry blocks visible up to 2.5 meters from the ground. The house has a gabled roof covered with old tiles, featuring a rendered ridge stack on the left wing and a brick ridge stack on the right.

The building has a three-unit plan with a cross-wing to the left and stands two storeys high, with a four-window range. All openings are adorned with keyed flat stone arches and rendered surrounds. The outer bays of the right wing contain a 20th-century plank door and another 20th-century door. The windows include early 19th-century sashes and 19th-century two-light casements in the right bay and attic windows of the cross wing. The left side wall and rear feature late 17th-century three-light casements with original wrought-iron fittings. The cross wing showcases carved medieval corbel heads on the left and rear sides.

To the right, there is an early 18th-century one-storey service range made of colourwashed limestone rubble, topped with a gabled 20th-century tile roof, a brick ridge stack, and an exposed queen-post truss in the right gable.

Inside the right wing, there is an open fireplace and quartered and stop-chamfered beams in the room to the left, as well as stop-chamfered beams and a collar-truss roof. The cross wing features stop-chamfered beams, including an inserted floor with lodging beams in the rear room, which has a 17th-century open fireplace with a chamfered oak bressumer and stone jambs. A late 17th-century open-well staircase with winders, turned balusters on a closed string, ball finials, and turned pendentives on the newels can be found here. The first floor includes double-chamfered jambs to the fireplace and overmantle in the rear room. It is suggested that the medieval masonry blocks in the left wing may be re-used rather than original to the site, as large early 13th-century stiff-leaf capitals have been discovered in the garden.