The White House

The White House, formerly known as Vagg Farmhouse, is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century, possibly a rebuilding from that time, designed in the style of a villa. It is rendered with a stone plinth, all colourwashed, and features a pyramidal Welsh slate roof (now Turnerised) with wide bracketed soffits and a central brick chimney stack. The building is two storeys high with three bays on each face.

The main (east) elevation has a central six-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, accessed by four steps. This door is set in a plain opening and has a flat hood supported by plain corbel brackets. On either side of the door, there are smaller 12-pane sash windows on both levels, while the central bay on the first floor is blank. The basement, which is barely visible above ground, has stone hollow chamfered mullioned windows that suggest earlier work.

The garden (south) elevation is similar to the main elevation but has added four-pane sashes on either side of two ground floor windows, and a central doorcase (partly obscured by a porch) with pairs of slender non-classical columns supporting an open pediment. The interior has not been seen. The grounds also contain the Vagg Farm Granary.