Local List: White House Farm, outbuildings and boundary walls (Daventry)

A farmstead comprising two distinct groups of buildings dating from the early nineteenth century. The first group is clustered around the farmhouse and includes a stable block, two cow houses, a brick outbuilding, a wash house and a walled garden. The second group is further to the north comprising, hay barns, an open sided cow house and a stabling block. All buildings have been substantialy altered during the mid to late nineteenth century.The farm house is build of brick to an L-shaped plan with a hipped slate-covered roof; the rear wing is the only surviving fragment of the original farmhouse. The stable block is a two storey roughly rectangluar building with stabling at the ground floor and a hay loft above. The gable roof has a slate covering. The building has seen a number of alterations. On the ground floor, mangers, stalls and hay shoots, and the brick floor survive and probably date from the nineteenth century.The cow houses are brick built. Fixtures date from the nineteenth century or later and include hay stores, mangers and tethering boards. Some slate roof covering remains but much has been replaced with asbestos and corrugated tin roofing.Brick outbuilding: a rectangular two storey brick outbuilding dating to the late nineteenth century. The ther south of the building is a walled garden.Wash house: a single storey building of coursed squared ironside with a slate covered gable roof. The building has been substantially altered. In the southern room a bread oven and copper with inglenook fireplace survive. The oven contains cast-iron fittings which probably date from the mid to late nineteenth century.Ironstone barn to the north: this has been much altered. There is a small hayloft at the northern end.Cow house; is principally built of ironside, but has external brick rebuilt on the southern elevation.Stable block: a single storey building with wooden stalls. Locally listed building.

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