Whiterose Farmhouse

SS 80 SE SANDFORD PRESTON LANE

4/251 Whiterose Farmhouse

II*

Farmhouse. Early-mid C16 with later C16 and C17 improvements, extended circa 1980. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone stacks with C19 brick tops. Wheat reed thatched roof. Originally a 3-room-and-through-passage house facing south with inner room at right (east) end. Circa 1980 extension to service (left) end. End stack to service room and axial stack backing onto former passage. Now 2 storeys. 3-window front (excluding circa 1980 extension) of late C19 and C20 casements with thatch lifting over first floor dormers. C19 door towards right end is a secondary door to inner room and left window blocks original passage door. Roof is half-hipped at right end and gable-ended to left over shingle clad extension. Rear elevation includes Cl7 projecting semi-circular stair turret with hipped conical roof serving the hall (towards left end) and includes oak 2-light window with chamfered mullion. At right end a late C17-early C18 stair turret projects square from service room. Good interior. Remains of C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen on low side of passage with chamfered muntins with cut-diagonal stops. A similar screen at upper end of hall has chamfered muntins with roll stops high enough to accommodate a bench. Remains of ancient colour: the planks retain traces of late C16 painted figures recognisable as saints. Mid-late C16 hall fireplace is unusual having a massive oak hood corbel on left side. Its oak lintel is chamfered with pyramid stops and it includes an C18 or C19 bread oven on right side. Inner room has mid-late C16 axial beam resting on a large jowl-headed post against rear of passage. It is chamfered with pyramid stops. The room is unheated and was apparently used as a dairy in the C19. 4-bay roof is carried on side- pegged, jointed cruck trusses and although roofspace is inaccessible smoke- blackening is reported over hall. There is some evidence for possibly original large-framed closed truss over lower passage screen and a secondary flooring of passage and a first floor low oak plank-and-muntin screen flush with back of fireplace. Service room floored in early-mid C17 with chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beam. Rubble fireplace with massive chamfered oak lintel and brick side oven may have been reduced in width. Winder stair to right. Hall floored in early-mid C17 using a chamfered and scroll-stopped beam and at same time newel stair turret added to rear. Door is chamfered with scroll stops and newel rises around cruck foot. Unusually small but well-preserved multi-phase farmhouse.

Listing NGR: SS8517104558