Listed Building: WHITE HOUSE FARMHOUSE (281383)

THORNDON THE STREET TM 16 NW 3/102 White House Farmhouse - II Former farmhouse. Mid C16 rear wing, the forwardmost cell of which is now incorporated into the front range. Remainder of front range is a 3-cell addition of c.1600. Later C17 alterations. A large house of L-shape plan. Timber framed, mainly plastered. Front roof slope of front range has old plaintiles; the remainder is pantiled. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, C19 (first floor) and mid C20 (ground floor) casements. One small original mullioned window below the stack and others to the rear and right gable. 2 doorways with mid C20 boarded doors. Internal stack with 3 octagonal shafts (rebuilt mid C20) on original moulded bases. Rear wing has internal stack with rendered shaft. Internally much of the frame is exposed, with some good close studding and blocked ovolo-mullioned windows of c.1600 in the front range. The hall has an axial bridging beam with ovolo moulding and soffit carved with a band of laurel leaves; ovolo joists with nicked stop-chamfers; ovolo cornice. Parlour has ovolo axial bridging beam with recessed soffit and plain joists. The parlour fireplace has small remains of a hoodmoulded brick arch. Rear wing comprises the earlier farmhouse, later used as service rooms. This wing has evidence for cross-entry doorways and the former service partition. Incomplete plank and muntin screen with 4-centre arched doorway. Above is a 3-bay room with 2 cambered tie beams carrying a queen-post roof. Newel stair by stack, probably C16. In later C17 the front range was given a butt-purlin roof which extended across the parlour cell of the rear wing, the walls of this section being raised about O.7m. Listing NGR: TM1364869903