White Lodge

The interior retains its original plan form and much of the original detailing. The porch leads into a longitudinal entrance hall with billiard room to L, stairs and office wing to the R. A drawing room (leading to the conservatory), tapestry room and dining room are arranged ensuite along the S front. The open-well Arts and Crafts stair has tapered newels, and a stair window with inter-war stained glass depicting a pastoral scene. The hall has high panelled dado. The billiard room has finely detailed woodwork, with wainscotting, an arched inglenook and a long window seat opposite. The drawing room has arched screens, a good classical chimneypiece and ribbed, plaster ceiling. The dining room has a panelled inglenook and moulded fire surround.

In an Arts and Crafts style influenced by Sir Edwin Lutyens. A tall 2-storey N-facing house comprising a double-depth main range with an office wing forward on the R. Walls are whitewashed roughcast with exposed red sandstone ashlar and tiled dressings, on a snecked rock-faced stone plinth. The steeply-pitched tile roof is hipped with swept and boarded eaves to the front span and wing, gabled to the rear span. A tall ashlar stack with deep moulded cornice is to the L of centre in the front (N) roof slope, while the rear (S) roof span has centre and L end ashlar stacks. The main entrance is centrally placed and has dwarf rock-faced walls enclosing a patterned stone forecourt. It has a segmental arch to a recessed porch, in a tile surround with decorative fins radiating from the arch ring. Within the porch is a small-pane bay window and a panelled door offset to the L with bottle-glazing under the arch. Above the porch is a central 3-light gabled window with tile-hung apex. On the R side are narrow windows with tiled drip moulds, above which is a 3-light stair window with replaced central light. On the L side the roof is lower and has 2 hipped-roof dormers with swept eaves and 2-light casements. In the lower storey are 2 2-light windows, under a segmental head immediately L of the porch. The L end wall is 1½-storey. It has a 5-light bay window to the billiard room under a half-hipped gablet with string course. Upper L and R are dormers similar to the front. The rear roof span is gabled, with tiles apex above a decorative vent, external stack offset to the R side, and a 2-light window above a conservatory. The conservatory is polygonal with a hipped roof, and beneath it is a basement reached by brick steps. The asymmetrical 5 bay S front has a tall 2-storey projecting gabled bay to the centre, incorporating a garden entrance and loggia with segmental arch, of ashlar in the lower storey above the rock-faced plinth. The upper-storey balcony also has a segmental arch and French doors. Windows incorporate small-pane top-hung casements. The central bay is continuous with a bay L of centre, which is beneath a separate pyramidal roof with finial. To the R of centre is a full-height bow window with similar swept pyramidal roof. A further canted bay window is at the R end, under a hipped roof, with small bullseye window in the upper storey. The L (W) gable end has a 2-storey projection of rock-faced stone offset to the R side (for an inglenook). It has small bullseye windows in both storeys flanking the projecting chimney, and similar windows to the return at the end of the S front. Above, the ashlar flue is diagonal. Single windows are L of the projection in each storey. The office wing is set back from the W gable end, and has a round-headed doorway on the R side. The wing has 2 lean-to porches, of which the L-hand is trellised. Between the lean-tos is a rock-faced external flue, incorporating a window in the lower storey, to an ashlar eaves stack.