NHER 12121 (Building record) - White House, White Lodge, Pecks Farm or Bretts Manor

Late medieval timber framed open-hall house with roof on raised arcades according to undated plans by Royal Commission of Historic Monuments in file.
South Norfolk District Council says date is 14th century.
House restored and inhabited by 1979.
E. Rose (NAU) 2 October 1979.

Copies of photographs also by Royal Commission of Historic Monuments show roof arcade is in fact an arch-braced tiebeam on posts rising from a remarkable arch-braced truss. In other words a raised aisled hall. Pair of doors remain to service rooms. Mullioned windows.
E. Rose (NAU) 26 October 1981.

Described in (S1) as an unusual Wealden house with hipped roof. Photographs in file indeed suggest interior is of Wealden type but ground plan by Royal Commission of Historic Monuments gives no hint of the usual recessed centre bay.
E. Rose (NAU) 9 February 1987.

Reference (S3) states that this is a raised aisled hall with vestigial arcade posts in the service wall. Diagrams given.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 September 1998.

Illustration and newspaper cutting (S2) in file.

June 2005. Building recording.
The house is pantiled and rendered with the appearance of a lobby entrance house. The ground floor room contains a transverse joist decorated with sunk quadrant moulding and a lamb's tongue chamfer stop with bar, which suggests a 17th century date but ceiling is likely to be a later addition as the joist is not tied into the frame and has no supporting post. A number of features suggest an early 17th century date but it is not known whether the first floor was inserted or if the house was originally constructed with all three floors.
See (S4) for further details.
S. Howard (NLA), 16 December 2009.

Also see (S5).
C. Kennett (NLA), 19 August 2010.