NHER 43950 (Building record) - The White House, Old Norwich Road

House, former public house. 17th century. Stone, flint and brick with brick quoins, all whitewashed. Steeply-pitched thatched roof. Two storeys and cellar, lobby entrance plan.
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A. Cattermole (NLA), 3 March 2006.

(S2) in file shows fragments of Norman stonework built into the fabric presumably from the priory, and former pub fittings including an Orbis Fortunae.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 October 2007.

A 17th century house, formerly a public house. Altered 18th century. It is built of re-used stone, flint and brick. It has two storeys, a cellar and attic. Thatched roof. The stone is re-used limestone mainly of 12th century date. Most likely to have come from Priory of St Faith in the village. Central axial stack with lobby entrance and staircase to other side of stack. Roadside gable-end has 4 small sash windows in symmetrical arrangement with a central internal stack and tumbling-in. It is probably an 18th century rebuild along with the insertion of platbands. Modern colourwash to all walls except for west gable-end which reveals clearly worked pieces of limestone (mainly Caen stone) of Norman date - chevron, roll mouldings and columns etc. This gable -end is clearly a rebuild on foundations slightly further west. This must have been owing to an early failure possibly during building because the 17th-century roof is not affected by the extension. Lean-to to north with a former large stack in south east corner (demolished 2011). Interior west room contains built in settles from its time as an inn. Only the west room heated originally. Cellar beneath east room with several pieces of worked stone visible. 17th century Butt purlin roof with collars and curved windbracing.
Garden wall has several pieces of worked stone incorporated in masonry and there is also a loose double double bell capital of late 12th century or early 13th.
Photographs in image library.
S. Heywood (HES), 1 July 2011