White House Farmhouse
WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199363
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199363
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MILL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, MILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wissett
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 36949 79049
Details
TM 37 NE WISSETT MILL ROAD
5/62 White House Farmhouse
1-9-53 - II
Farmhouse. Late C16 and early C17. Timber-framed and plastered, with pantiled roofs. 2 storeys and attics; L-shaped form. The main range has a 3- cell form, with internal chimney-stack and cross-entry, later replaced by a lobby entrance. The stack has 4 square attached shafts on a rectangular base with a blank recessed panel. Old 3-light casement windows with transomes and pintle hinges; one dormer, with an almost flat lead-covered roof, and another in similar style in the wing. C19 gabled brick porch with pantiled roof and narrow pointed windows at the sides. Plain timbering exposed inside; main beams and joists with chamfer and lamb's tongue stops, posts with long jowls, reversed braces at the corners. The upper ceilings are original. The chimney-stack has 4 hearths: on the ground floor, one with a plain timber lintel and moulded brick jambs, the other with a brick arch; on the first floor, one with an unsually decorated cast-iron hob grate, the other with a small 4-centred brick arch. The roof, in short bays, has one row of unstepped butt purlins and one row of clasped, diminished principals and windbraces. A stair-wing to the rear of the stack contains a wide Jacobean dog-leg stair to the first floor with turned balusters and newels. The service area, still unheated, is not divided into 2. The rear wing, which provided additional service-rooms, is in 2½ bays with a brick gable-end incorporating a large chimney-stack, which may replace an earlier smoke-bay. Plain beam-and-joist ceiling to part. Newel stair beside the stack to the first floor and attic. Roof with a curious mixture of butt and clasped treatment of the purlins (cf. parts of North Green Farmhouse, Stoven, NMR report).
Listing NGR: TM3694979049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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