White House is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. House.

White House

WRENN ID
low-cobble-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1986
Type
House
Address
White House, Idridgehay and Alton
OS grid reference
SK 287 477
Coordinates
53.02605, -1.57308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White House is a house dating from the 17th century, with remodelling and additions from the 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone, with some brick additions, featuring plain gables, end ridge brick stacks, and a plain tiled roof. The house has a 'T' plan layout, with a lower wing added or remodelled at the rear.

On the south elevation, the house is two storeys high and has three bays with glazing bar sash windows in plain openings beneath deep lintels. The central doorway has a quoined surround and a six-panelled door. There are 2-light recessed chamfer mullioned windows on the upper part of the east gable and on the ground floor of the west gable. The lower brick wing has a quoined door surround and stacked 2-light casement windows on the west wall.

Local climate

White House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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