The White House

The White House is a house located in Marazion, dating from the 18th century or earlier, with extensions and remodels from the 19th and 20th centuries. The front is rendered and stuccoed, while the seaward side is slate-hung. The building features mostly hipped or gable-ended scantle slate roofs with sprocketted eaves at the front. There are brick chimneys located over the cross wall and gable end of the rear right-hand wing, as well as over the right-hand side wall.

The overall plan of the house is irregular and U-shaped, consisting of a main three-room range with a service wing at roughly right angles behind either end. There is also a square tower, built around 1900, that projects in front and to the right of the right-hand end, featuring an octagonal turret on its right side. Behind this tower is a single-storey extension from the 20th century with two rooms.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a slightly irregular four-window front facing northwest. On the right side, there is a squat stuccoed embattled tower that projects. The doorway is located towards the right and features a six-panel door with sidelights, set within a 20th-century porch. The windows include a three-light casement above the doorway and at the left side of the ground floor, with two-light casements elsewhere, except for a single light to the left of the doorway. The windows on this front and the main windows on the seaward side are from the 19th century, featuring Gothic traceried lights or 20th-century copies, while most others are horned sashes with glazing bars. The tower has dumb-bell pistol loop lights: three on the front and one on the left-hand wall. Adjacent to the tower is the octagonal slate-hung turret, which has a steep octagonal roof, a mid-floor cornice, and an eaves cornice. The interior has not been inspected.