White Lake Farmhouse

White Lake Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 16th century, with remodeling occurring in the late 16th or early 17th century, and some alterations made in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof that has a higher ridge level on the left-hand range. There are brick stacks at each gable end.

The original layout of the farmhouse has been obscured by later changes, but it now features heated rooms at each end. The left end was formerly a jettied open hall with a staircase located in the rear right-hand corner. These two heated rooms are separated by a narrow dairy/service room, with a short connecting passageway in front. There are significant signs of rebuilding at the left gable end, suggesting that the house may have originally extended beyond this point.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The early 20th-century windows include two-light casements with four panes per light above two three-light casements, one of which was inserted into a blocked doorway. This is flanked by a two-light window and a 20th-century door leading into the right-hand heated room. There are two outshuts at the rear, with the left one added in the 17th century, featuring a slated roof that extends across the space between them.

Inside, the right-end heated room has two chamfered hollow stop-chamfered cross ceiling beams. The fireplace in this room includes two bread ovens, one of which has a cast iron door made by T Lake and Co. of Barnstaple. The dairy fittings remain intact. A section of a plank and muntin screen is preserved between the hall and the small service room, featuring wide planks and a blocked chamfered door with a cranked head. This screen is continued by an additional panel that returns to the connecting passageway.

There is a 17th-century ovolo-moulded doorway with an old three-plank door between the hall and the rear outshut. Above the screen, a hollow step-stopped chamfered jetty cross beam supports two thinner axial ceiling beams with run-out stops. The fireplace lintel is likely a reset piece with pyramid slopes. The hall features a smoke-blackened truss with slightly curving principals, which was formerly fitted with a diagonally set ridge and trenched purlins. The heated room at the right end has a 17th-century truss that shows no signs of smoke blackening.