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The White House, Lambseth Street, Eye is a fine three storey mainly Georgian town house dating from the early 18th century with later additions. It is believed to have been built for a famous East Anglian brewing family, namely the Cobbolds (of Tollymache & Cobbold fame). The house and brewery (known as the Eye Brewery) were later sold to the Tacon family whose memory survives in the name of a narrow road off Lambseth Street (Tacon Close) which skirts the right hand side of the house. The house was converted into five self contained flats in the late 1960s. It is believed that a much older timber framed Tudor property stood upon this site which was extended in the early 18th century to create the much larger Georgian property which survives to this day. It also appears that a further two storey extension was added to the right of the property in the early Victorian era, providing for an extended drawing room on the ground floor and a further bedroom on the first floor. The original drawing room was converted into three separate rooms and an adjoining hallway when the property was converted into flats circa 1968. The recently named Tacon Close once formed the entrance to the former Eye Brewery and all the land behind the house, including that presently occupied by a local council sheltered housing scheme, was bequeathed to the town by the last member of the Tacon family to occupy the house (namely, Thomas Henry Warcup Tacon) upon his death in 1973.