The White House

ILFRACOMBE

SS44NE LEE 853-1/1/153 The White House 17/05/73

GV II

House. Late C17, considerably altered in C19. Roughly coursed rubble slate; Welsh slate roofs. 2-room, central cross passage with rear stairs, and shippon (now converted) to right under lower roof line; C19 front wing (raised to 2-storeys in late-C19) to left forming L-shaped plan overall. EXTERIOR: house a 3-window range with Yorkshire sashes to 1st floor (2 and 4 lights), and with 3-light Yorkshire sash windows flanking roughly central doorway to passage with half-glazed and panelled door. Former shippon with gabled dormer and window below (both with Yorkshire sashes) and separate doorway. To the right of the junction of these two sections of the house is a slit window of uncertain function. Front wing obscures lower part of formerly front lateral stack. 2-light sashes to inner elevation. End stack. INTERIOR: some C19 joinery and some earlier wide floorboards and wedge door. Narrow dairy to rear of left-hand room. Deep fireplaces to right-hand room and wing, the former with evidence of disused smoking chamber.

Listing NGR: SS4790446483