The Little Orchard The White House

WHIMPLE THE GREEN, (north side), Whimple SY 0497-0597 10/220 The White House and Little Orchard - GV II

2 houses made by dividing a house known once as The Cypresses. Probably 1868, the date on the nearby boundary walls (q.v). Plastered brick; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: pair of houses occupying a former house. The house faces south-east. The main block has a 3-room plan. The end rooms have gable-end stacks (the left one is disused) and the centre room has an axial stack backing onto the right room. Entrance hall and main stair between centre and left rooms. Kitchen in a rear block right of centre. Possibly secondary (but still C19) extension on right end. White House occupies the main centre and left rooms. Little Orchard occupies the main right room and extension. 2 storeys, the extension is single storey with glasshouse projecting in front. Exterior: the main has a regular but symmetrical 4-window front of horned 4-pane sashes (a fifth in the extension to right). The main doorway (now to the White House) is left of centre and contains a part-glazed 6-panel door behind a flat- roofed timber porch with moulded entablature and slightly tapering panelled square- section posts. Stucco flat clasping pilasters each end. The roof is gable-ended. The right end extension has an embattled parapet. Good late C19 glasshouse in front. Shaped bargeboards on left end. To rear the stair lit by a sash with margin panes. Interior: modernised but includes some original joinery detail. For instance the main entrance hall is tile-floored and contains an open string stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail and curtail step. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: SY0419497547