The White House

The White House is a house, dating to 1850, located on Oakfield Road in Clifton, Bristol. It was designed by Charles Dyer and is now used as offices. The building is constructed of stucco with limestone dressings, features gable stacks, and has a hidden roof. It follows a double-depth plan and is in a Neoclassical style.

The building is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and has a five-window front. The symmetrical facade has an attic over the central section and single-window blocks at the ends. The ground floor is plain, with paired giant pilasters featuring foliate capitals in the centre, and plain pilasters on the sides. A moulded sill band, frieze, and cornice run along the first floor, topped by a tall parapet with three sections of balustrade with slim column balusters over the windows.

A large porch has columns with acanthus capitals and a dentil entablature, an overlight made of plate glass, and 20th-century double doors. The inscription "CHARLES DYER/1850" is on the left side of the porch. The windows have architraves and cornices, with consoles supporting the first-floor windows. The ground floor windows have 6/6-pane sashes, while smaller windows set between the pilasters on the first floor have margin panes. The first floor also has taller 4/4-pane sashes, and the attic has 3/3-pane sashes.

The side elevations have chimney breasts separated by a blind window, with stacks linked above the parapet by a semicircular arch. The right-hand stack contains a section of balustrade. The rear elevation is similar to the front, but with a central, wide bow between the pilasters, featuring a tripartite window, a frieze of paterae, and a balustrade above.

The interior features a central hall with a left-hand stairwell containing a winder staircase with stone treads, a smooth soffit, cast-iron balusters with anthemia, and a ramped rail supporting a late 19th-century lamp. An enclosed service stair with a dogleg winder and stick balusters is located to the left of the entrance. First-floor fireplaces have paired pilasters and doors to the firebaskets. The cornices have palmettes, and there are 4-panel doors with panelled shutters. A vaulted basement exists, and there are half-glazed front doors with margin bars.