White Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
White Lodge
- WRENN ID
- proud-cornice-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Lodge, St Peters Churchyard, Swaffham
- OS grid reference
- TF 820 089
- Coordinates
- 52.64768, 0.6897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Lodge is a house dating from the mid-18th century, constructed of painted flint and brick with pantile roofs. The building features two wings arranged in an L-shape. The north front has two storeys and an attic, with a seven-window range. The central three bays project forward beneath a pediment, and there is a half-glazed central door set within a timber doorcase that also has a pediment. The ground floor includes one 6/6 horned sash window in the fifth and seventh bays from the left, while the first floor has one 1/1 horned sash in the sixth bay and a 6/6 unhorned sash in the seventh bay. The remaining windows are blind, and there is a low parapet with a round window in the pediment. The gabled roof has two flat-topped dormers fitted with 20th-century casements, and there is a ridge stack to the left of center along with an external gable-end stack to the west, which was rebuilt in the 20th century. The east gable features a two-storey canted bay window with 6/6 unhorned sashes, where the middle sashes rise into glazed arches. The east side of the south wing has a four-window range lit by sashes of various designs. In the angle between the wings, there is a two-storey extension added in the 20th century. Inside, there is a stick-baluster staircase with a ramped handrail. The north range has chamfered bridging beams with tongue stops at the first floor. The east room contains a late 18th-century timber fire surround decorated with plaster Greek figures in the frieze. The roof structure includes principals and one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins.
Local climate
White Lodge 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 94% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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