Pauntley Place

Pauntley Place, also marked as White House on the Ordnance Survey map, is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century and an extension added in the early 20th century. The building features a timber frame with rendered square panels and an English-bond brickwork extension, topped with a tiled roof. It has a T-shaped plan, with one angle infilled, and stands two storeys high with attics.

The entrance front has a ground floor that has been rebuilt in brick, featuring a canted single-storey flat-roofed bay with a sash window that has three panes above and two panes below. To the left is a leaded-light window. The half-glazed front door is located on the left side in the return of the projecting wing, with two panels below, and is sheltered by a two-bay hipped lean-to porch supported by timber posts on stone bases, with elliptical heads over the openings. The extension is painted to resemble timber framing and includes three sash windows in the gable, similar to those in the bay.

On the first floor, the framing on the right is three panels high, with an additional panel above for the attics. There is a sash window below, with another sash window on the left set higher for the stairs. Above the front door is a sash window with two panes above and one below. The left gable features two sash windows, matching those on the ground floor. The right return shows timber framing with jowls to the main posts and a single-pane window in the gable, supported by V struts.

The left return includes a ground floor bay with an ogee lead roof. There is a single-storey gabled wing set back on the right, behind the garage, with a stone-walled cellar below and a raised ground floor accessed by brick steps, featuring part walling of close-studded timber framing. This may incorporate remnants of an earlier building.

Inside, there are two scratch-moulded boarded doors at the back of the entrance hall, early 19th-century stairs leading to the first floor, and a spiral staircase to the attics. A late 17th-century mullion and transom window with an iron opening light is preserved in the kitchen. Originally, the house was L-shaped with timber framing and lateral stacks in each wing, including an apparently unheated corner room. A narrow bay in the center of the main side likely served as a staircase. A lean-to was added later to infill the angle, and the early 20th-century addition to the front wing creates the current T-plan, with the side wall positioned approximately 375mm in front of the original gable, which was removed below the attic. The present entrance leads into this extension.