The Old White House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

The Old White House

WRENN ID
second-obsidian-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
House, shop
Address
The Old White House, 28, High Street, Kimpton, SG4 8RN
OS grid reference
TL 177 183
Coordinates
51.85157, -0.29245
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old White House is a house and shop dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with its roof raised in the early 20th century. The ground floor is painted brick, while the upper floor features parquet flooring. It has a plain tile roof and consists of three timber-framed bays. A large chimney stack is located at the center of the east side, with a spiral staircase attached to the stack in the front lobby entrance. The building has a four-window front elevation and is two storeys high. There is a narrow 19th-century gabled bay on the east side, with 19th-century glazing bar casements and sash windows. The gabled porch features lancet arches and a figured 17th-century cartouche in the tympanum. To the east of the porch, there is a two-storey canted sash window bay, and on the west gable end, there is a 16th or 17th-century window with three square lights.

Local climate

The Old White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 1995
  • 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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