White House Farmhouse

Early C18 three-storey farmhouse. S front and NE wing are rendered with stone quoins; NW wing is painted rubble stone. Hipped slate roof with stone end-stacks. S front windows have stone sills. On second floor are three 2+2+2 pane casements, and on first floor three corresponding windows with 3+3+3 casements. Ground floor has C20 glazed porch with hipped slate roof (centre) flanked by 16-pane hornless sash on each side. E elevation has 9-pane sash on first and 12-pane sash on ground floor (left); and similar windows to side wall of rear wing (right). At the back of the house is a single storey lean-to outshut with slate roof (centre) flanked each side by the two-storey rear wings. Wings have hipped slate roofs, and both ridges rise to just below below eaves-level of main house. E wing houses ground-floor kitchen and attached to end- gable is a bread oven with slate roof. W wing has flight of stone steps rising to boarded door of upper dairy. Gable and side wall of dairy have 2+2 pane casements in segmental arched openings.

3-panel front door has rectangular bottom panel with two vertical panels above, and rectangular overlight with lattice glazing. Entry into centre stairhall. Principal ground-floor rooms to left and right have 6-panel doors and room (to left) has a moulded ceiling cornice. Ground-floor front windows have panelled shutters and reeded architraves with angle-blocks. Early C19 stair with rounded newel post and square balusters. Back kitchen has square-section ceiling beams, and early C18 fireplace surround with wooden spit-rack as overmantel. Stone-flagged dairy with pig salting slab on brick piers.