The White House with Attached Railings and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
The White House with Attached Railings and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- iron-hinge-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House with Attached Railings and Gate Piers, SY4 2AZ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 424 220
- Coordinates
- 52.79329, -2.85421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house, originally built in 1747, but significantly altered from the early to mid-19th century, with later additions and changes. It is constructed of red brick with a stuccoed front, and has a slate roof with projecting verges and carved double-purlin ends. The building has an integral end stack, and follows a T-shaped plan. It is three storeys high, with a top storey added in the 19th century; rusticated angle quoins with banded rustication to the ground floor, and a moulded plinth and band to the first floor. There are three windows to the front, with glazing bar sashes having slightly cambered heads and 16 panes to the ground and first floors. A plain Doric porch with a stone balcony fronts the central entrance, leading to a 19th-century half-glazed door. A date stone marked “RWD/1747” is located to the right gable end.
A lower red brick range is attached to the right, featuring an open-pedimented gable end above two blind windows, with a 20th-century shop front below. A glazing bar sash window with a slightly cambered head is present on the first floor. A low service range, constructed of red sandstone blocks with a corrugated iron roof and moulded eaves cornice, extends at a right angle to the rear of the main building. A red brick lean-to is located to the left gable end, concealed behind a wall with ramped stone coping. Two sets of stone gate piers, linked by spear-headed railings on a low brick wall, stand at the front. The property is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
The White House with Attached Railings and Gate Piers receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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