White House Farmhouse
WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, OLD HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310206
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, OLD HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310206
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- White House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, OLD HALL 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, OLD HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sunk Island
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 26696 18268
Details
SUNK ISLAND OLD HALL ROAD TA 21 NE (east side) 10/83 White House Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. 1855 by S S Teulon for Crown Commissioners. Red-brown brick in Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof. Main range approximately L-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south garden front with double-depth wing to rear right and west entrance in angle. 2 storeys. South front: 3 first- floor windows; asymmetrical. Chamfered plinth. Segmental-headed half- glazed door beneath rubbed-brick arch flanked by ground-floor brick bay window to left with a pair of 12-pane sashes beneath hipped roof, 12-pane sash to right. First floor: central 12-pane stair window flanked by smaller 12-pane sashes, that to left beneath raised eaves. All windows with projecting sills and segmental rubbed-brick arches, those to right also with pointed relieving arches and flush panels with herringbone brick infill beneath gable with stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick and central decorative flush brick round panel. Axial stack and partly-projecting end stack to left corbelled-out at mid-ground floor level, with tumbled-in brick to offsets, dentilled and corbelled brick cornices, low square pots. Left return forms west entrance front, with projecting gabled section to right, and 2-bay section set back to left with entrance in angle. 2 steps to segmental-headed half-glazed door with pair of ornately-engraved panes above 2 fielded-panels. Tripartite sash to left with glazing bars beneath segmental arch. First floor: small unequal segmental-headed 6-pane sash above entrance, 12-pane sash to left with segmental arch and pointed relieving arch with herringbone brick infill, beneath gable with stepped eaves and tumbled-in brick. Gabled section to right has 12-pane sash beneath segmental arch, and recessed segmental-arched panel set in corbelled lower section of stack, containing pointed lozenge-shaped relief tablet with crown, royal cypher and date. Stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick to gable. Axial stack to left. Interior contains closed string staircase with moulded handrail, chamfered newel post and Gothic-style splat balusters with pierced trefoils; panelled doors in architraves. One of a series of mid C19 Crown estate buildings by Teulon, and the least altered of the surviving farmhouses. See item 6/76 for sources.
Listing NGR: TA2669618268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allison, K J, The Victoria History of the County of York: East Riding, (1984), 135-9
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 351-2
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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