The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Farmhouse.

The White House

WRENN ID
sleeping-brick-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Address
The White House, Sutton
OS grid reference
SO 531 457
Coordinates
52.10818, -2.68609
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the late 17th century. It features a coursed rubble sandstone plinth and is timber-framed with brick infill. The roof is made of stone slate, with a local stone end stack on the left and a prominent brick ridge stack with four diagonal shafts to the right of center. The building has two storeys and is arranged in three-and-a-half bays, oriented roughly east to west, with the eastern bay above a rubble-walled cellar.

On the south elevation, there are regularly spaced early 19th-century casement windows. The ground floor windows have 12 panes, while the first-floor windows have nine panes, except for a four-light casement in the chimney half-bay. To the left of center, there is a five-panelled door set in an early 20th-century porch, along with a ledged door to the cellar located in the east gable, which is accessed by a flight of narrow straight steps that may date back to the 17th century.

The timber frame consists of four regular panels from the cill to the wall-plate, now featuring intermediate thin rails, possibly due to nogging replacing the original plaster and wattle infill. There are diagonal struts connecting the corner posts to the wall-plates. The only part of the interior that was inspected is the cellar, which has lamb's tongue run-out chamfer stops on its two ceiling beams and two sets of stone stairs that previously provided access to the ground floor room above.

Local climate

The White House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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