Building record MTT 067 - White House Farmhouse, Low Road

White House Farmhouse is a timber framed building of the 17th century that preserves a number of historically interesting features. It was constructed in three distinct phases, of which the earliest originally formed a low cross-wing at the right-hand end of the present façade. Dating from circa 1610 this part of the house adjoined an earlier structure to its left, and almost certainly represents the new, enlarged parlour of a medieval or Tudor hall. The old hall was demolished around 1630 and replaced with a completely new, taller house, consisting of a central hall flanked by parlour and service bays; the parlour of 1610, which adjoined the new service bay, may have been converted into a dairy or kitchen at the same time. In the late-17th century a bakehouse was added to the latter’s rear gable, and the modern house was completed around 1840 by the addition of the present single roof, which unified the appearance of the building, together with its entrance porch and fenestration. pattern of evolution, which illustrates the changing fashions of rural life from the beginning of the 17th century to its end, and by the survival of significant features such as rare early shelving, window mullions, and a ‘spiritual midden’ including a mummified cat (S1).