This was long the home of Miss Constance Purser, who nurtured it and uncovered its past, building up a collection of household and agricultural implements, and opened it to the public in a small way. In 1990 she passed the house and its contents on to us.

Until 1945 the White House belonged to the Stedmans, who had lived here from soon after 1300 in a nearly unbroken line. The tops of the great cruck trusses of their hall can be seen in the roof space. Below are rooms of Tudor and Jacobean date, with wide uneven oak floorboards and a pleasing jumble of different windows. After a fire in 1780, a polite new drawing-room was added at one end, with a bedroom above.

The house stands on the south side of Wenlock Edge, and the garden runs down the hill in front, with long views of Corvedale towards Ludlow, capital of the Marches. Just below is the village of Aston Munslow. Behind the house are outbuildings of all shapes and dates and sizes, many containing equipment appropriate to their original use.

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