White Meads

White Meads is a late 15th-century farmhouse, now a house, located in Cranleigh. It has undergone later alterations and an extension was added in 1953. The original structure is timber-framed with colourwashed brick infill, with tension bracing to the two bays on the left. Later colourwashed brick is visible on the ground floor and left side wall. The 1953 extension is largely of colourwashed brick, incorporating reused timbers, and has a tipped roof with gablets. An early 17th-century brick ridge stack and an 18th-century brick stack with oversailing courses are also present.

The original layout consisted of a central, one-bay open hall, flanked by a two-story solar bay to the left, and a cross passage and service bay to the right. A smoke-hood was initially attached to the hall and cross passage. Around 1550, the smoke-hood was replaced by a brick chimney, circa 1600, when the hall was floored over. The house was divided into two dwellings in the 18th century. It is two stories high, featuring a three-window range with a gabled 20th-century porch and a 20th-century window with latticed lights. A two-window range extension was added in 1953.

The interior, though not inspected, is noted to contain exposed timber framing with chamfered beams and jowled posts supporting late 15th-century collar-truss roof with clasped purlins. The central former open hall retains smoke-blackened rafters and nailed framing, with a wattle partition used to create a smoke bay around 1550. The first floor of the solar bay, on the left, is jettied into the hall, featuring rounded jettied joists to the crossing rail. An inserted open fireplace, dating from around 1600, is present with a stop-chamfered bressummer. A former bacon-smoking chamber is located over the cross passage.