The White House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. House.

The White House

WRENN ID
turning-belfry-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1951
Type
House
Address
The White House, Cavenham Road, Wereham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 682 015
Coordinates
52.58578, 0.4814
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a house dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the mid-18th century. It is constructed of brick, flint, and some carstone, topped with a roof of black glazed pantiles. The building has a double pile plan and stands two storeys tall with an attic, featuring seven irregular bays.

To the left of the centre, there is a portico porch made of rendered and colourwashed brick, supported by square corner pilasters and a pair of Tuscan columns. This porch features an architrave with an ovolo acanthus plaster frieze and has a leaded roof. The windows are sashes from various periods, with two to the right of the porch from the 18th century, while the rest date from the 19th or 20th centuries. Above the porch, a semi-circular window illuminates the stairwell.

The house has a brick modillion eaves cornice and a gabled roof that is hipped to the north. There are two pedimented dormers with casements. A ridge stack is positioned to the left of centre, and there is an internal gable stack to the right. The south gable head features tumbling and a raised parapet.

Local climate

The 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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