White House
WHITE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380443
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-2000
- List Entry Name:
- White House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380443
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-2000
- List Entry Name:
- White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fincham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 68445 06377
Details
TF60NE FINCHAM HIGH STREET
1127/5/10003 White House
II
House. Early C17, altered and extended mid C18 and converted to 2 houses, converted to single occupancy C20. Colourwashed carstone and flint with brick dressings; pantiled roof.
PLAN: lobby entrance with conventional parlour-hall-services plan.
EXTERIOR: south front is 2-storeys; 3-window range. Entrance door to right of centre under segmental arch. 3 mid C20 2-light casements to each floor. T-shaped ridge stack over door, and an internal gable-end stack to west. Ovolo-moulded brick gable kneelers.
East and west returns show evidence of the roof raised in C18. West gable with one blocked door and a single-light C20 attic window; west gable with one C20 casement each floor and one similar window to each floor of the rear outshut. C20 door into outshut.
Rear (north) elevation with a full-length C18 outshut under a catslide roof, rebated at the east end. 2 plank doors, that to right opening into an external storeroom. 2 C20 2-light casements to east, and one C19 12-paned fixed window to west, lighting the storeroom. Raking dormer fitted with late C19 2-light casement. Stack emerges through roof to east of dormer. Rebated section to east with one C20 casement and an external stack.
INTERIOR: parlour to east of stack with sunk-quadrant moulded spine beam with tongue stops. Fireplace blocked with 1970s fire surround. Blocked external door in south wall at east end, fitted with shelving. Hall, to west of stack, with chamfered spine beam and C20 fireplace. 2 plank doors into outshut. Services to west end with boarded bridging beam connecting with the hall spine beam, indicating the services east partition wall is relocated further west. Winder staircase north of the stack, with a studwork north wall. Outshut with kitchens at east and west end. West kitchen with plank door into pantry created by partitioning an area of the west storeroom. Boarded spine beam in east kitchen.
East room of first floor with early C19 cast-iron Pantheon-pattern hob grate. West wall with one pair of early C17 cranked rafters (upper crucks). Centre room with one late C18 cast-iron Bath grate. Plain west room, with second staircase to ground floor.
Outshut roof of rafters and one tier of taper-tenoned staggered butt purlins. Main roof of C18: rafters, one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars.
Listing NGR: TF6844506377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480591
- 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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