Description

ST DEVEREUX CP
SO 43 SE
3/52
26.1.67

White House Farmhouse

GV
II*

Farmhouse. C15, with mid-C16 cross-wing, later C17 additions, mid- to
late C19 alterations, C20 restoration. Timber-framed with part painted
brick and part plastered infill on sandstone rubble plinth; tiled roof.
Hall wing of four bays with two north-eastern bays being a C17 addition;
cross-wing adjoins to south-west. Main axial stack to hall, gable-end
stack to cross-wing. Single storey and attic to hall, with one square
headed opening in panelling of framing to left of ledged doorway, and
2-light casement window in gabled dormer to right above former window
of hall with six small ogee heads; lower portion of window has inserted
2-light C19 casement window. Square panelled framing to two C17 bays
with irregular square panelled framing to C15 bays with large brace to
left of window. Gable end of cross-wing to right of two storeys with
jettied upper storey; 2-light casement window to upper floor with similar
window to ground floor to right of panelled door. Interior of hall block
reveals cruck trusses with arch-braced and moulded central truss. The
smoke-blackened roof has two rows of purlins and one tier of wind-braces.

Listing NGR: SO4532032178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537508

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record