Building record 495/0/39 - White House Farm, outbuildings and boundary walls

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.

{1} The main farmhouse is of 18th-19th century construction with an ironstone wing to the northwest and the main brickfaced facade to the south east. The façade is painted white, making the property quite distinctive. It has a hipped, Welsh slate roof and timber sliding sash windows. This frontage is orientated towards Stubbs Road and is prominent in views from Everdon Bridge across an expanse of pasture, forming part of the gateway to the conservation area. An associated small brick outbuilding with decorative metal casement windows faces onto Stubbs Road, and the plot is demarcated by an ironstone boundary wall.

{2} White House Farm probably started as a traditionally farmed holding dating from the 18th century, loosely arranged around a yard. The farm was enlarged during the late eighteenth century and saw two period of redevelopment. The farm is a locally significant group of buildings, had there been less alteration this group would have had greater interest.

<1> Daventry District Council, 2019, Everdon Village Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan, Adopted October 2019, p. 47 (Policy Document). SNN112341.

<2> ENGISH HERITAGE, English Heritage Listing File (Report). SNN111579.

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