White House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
White House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-tower-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- White House, 9, High Row, Gainford, DL2 3DN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 169 168
- Coordinates
- 54.547, -1.73962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house formed from the conversion of two late 18th century to early 19th century houses into a single dwelling. It features roughcast and painted masonry, with the left section having a Welsh slate roof and the right section covered with sandstone flags. The building is two storeys high, with a one-bay left section and a slightly recessed two-bay right section.
On the ground floor, there is a central open-pedimented Doric doorcase that contains a six-panel door and a radial fanlight, flanked by early 20th century canted bay windows. The first floor windows are set in raised surrounds, featuring a 16-pane sash window, which is bowed on plan, to the left, and two two-light windows with six-pane sashes and Y-tracery heads to the right. The roofs are moderately pitched, with a coped left gable that has a shaped kneeler, two gable stacks, and one central ridge stack. At the rear, there is a staircase window with a radial head under a brick arch.
An attached wing at the rear of the left return is not of special interest.
Local climate
White House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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