The White House

The White House is a house that underwent rebuilding in the late 18th century on the site of a medieval bishop's palace. It has had later additions and alterations. The exterior features painted roughly coursed slate-stone with slate hanging on the south gable and the first floor, as well as on the churchyard side of the north-west range. The slate roofs are hipped at the south end of the main range, which is aligned roughly north-south and consists of two sections to the north-west.

The building has two storeys with a plinth on the churchyard side. This side includes three 16-paned glazing bar sash windows, with the right two being horned, located directly below the eaves of the north section of the main range. There is an iron-barred casement to the left and another 16-paned glazing bar sash to the right on the ground floor. A central red brick ridge stack and an integral end stack with an octagonal shaft and a finial shaped like a bishop's mitre are present on the right side, likely dating from the late medieval period, though it is not in its original position.

A lean-to projection is situated in the angle between the main range and the left part of the north-west range, featuring the outline of an earlier lean-to above and a pointed wooden doorway with a nail-studded plank door at the front. The west side displays a mix of sashes and casements on the main range, along with a half-glazed door beneath a hip-roofed porch at the angle with the north-west range, which has a prominent stepped external lateral stack to the west. The lower part of the main range is set back, with external lateral steps leading to a first-floor doorway on the far left. There are 19th-century casements on each floor facing the road.

Inside, the building has been much altered in the 20th century. It features a late 18th-century or early 19th-century collar and tie beam roof in four bays to the south of the ridge stack, with three similar bays to the north. The lower part contains a complete 19th-century cider press, which is still in working order. The late 18th-century or early 19th-century collar truss roof is notable. A late medieval round-headed wooden doorway with jowled posts and a later plank door connects the lower part to the main range but was not in its original position at the time of the last survey due to renovation work. The medieval Bishops of Exeter had a palace on this site.