White House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1985. House.

White House

WRENN ID
under-rotunda-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 October 1985
Type
House
Address
White House, Oxborough
OS grid reference
TF 724 007
Coordinates
52.57758, 0.5434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a 17th-century farmhouse that was faced and refurbished in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with gault brick facing and pantile roofs. The building has a former lobby-entrance type plan, is two storeys high with an attic, and has a facade with three regular bays of sash windows that include glazing bars, although one window is blocked. The ground floor windows are set beneath skewback arches, and there is a modern front door located at the southern end of the facade. An off-centre axial stack is present, along with a 19th-century two-bay side addition made of red brick, which has three sash windows with glazing bars. At the rear, there is a lean-to outshut.

Inside, the timber frame is fairly complete, showcasing wide chamfers and stepped stops on the spinal bridging joists and tie beams. The roof features remains of a clasped purlin structure that has been extensively repaired.

Local climate

White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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