The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House, former chapel. 3 related planning applications.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-iron-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House, former chapel
- Address
- The White House, 180, 182, 184 and 186, Wilmslow Road, Handforth, SK9 3LF
- OS grid reference
- SJ 856 841
- Coordinates
- 53.35422, -2.21683
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a former Methodist chapel, two houses, and a Sunday School, now serving as two houses and storage. It dates from around 1840, with part of it converted to a Sunday School in 1873. The building is constructed of washed and rendered brick, topped with a green painted Welsh slate roof and features two brick chimneys. It has an H-shaped plan, with the northern cross-wing serving as the chapel, which has a two-storey, symmetrical three-bay front. The end bays contain lancet windows with heavy label moulds. The central section features a board door flanked by a four-light mullioned and transomed window with crude intersecting tracery, and a small light above in the gable. The northern side has similar lancet windows. The central portion consists of two similar three-bay houses, each with 16-pane sash windows and half-glazed doors that are accessed by three stone steps with iron balusters. The southern cross-wing is two and a half storeys high with two bays, also featuring 16-pane windows and a blocked semi-circular headed light in the gable.
Local climate
The White House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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