The White House

MARAZION THE SQUARE, Marazion SW 5130

4/72 The White House - 10.6.54

GV II

House. C18 or earlier, extended and remodelled in the C19 and C20. Rendered and stucco to front, slatehung to seaward side, right, otherwise painted rubble or rendered. Scantle slate roofs mostly hipped or gable ended sprocketted eaves at the front. Brick chimneys over cross wall and gable end of rear right hand wing and over the right-hand side wall. Plan: overall irregular U-shaped plan comprising main 3-room range with service wing at roughly right angles behind either end plus circa 1900 square 1 room plan tower projecting in front and to the right of the right hand end with an octagonal turret on its right hand side and in the angle behind a 2 room plan single storey C20 extension. Gothic style windows. Exterior : 2 storeys. Overall slightly irregular 4 window north-west front with squat stuccoed embattled tower projecting on the right. Doorway towards right with 6-panel door with sidelights within C20 porch. 3 light casement over the doorway and at ground floor left, otherwise 2-light casements except single light left of doorway. Windows to this front and the principal windows of the seaward (south-west) front are C19 with Gothic traceried lights, or C20 copies, otherwise mostly horned sashes with glazing bars. The tower, right has dumb-bell pistol loop lights: 3 to the front and 1 in the left hand wall. On the right of the tower is an octagonal slate-hung turret with steep octagonal roof, mid-floor cornice and eaves cornice. Interior : not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW5181230582