Whitehouse Farmhouse (North) is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. Farmhouse.

Whitehouse Farmhouse (North)

WRENN ID
forbidden-cellar-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Whitehouse Farmhouse (North), High Road, Needham
OS grid reference
TM 225 812
Coordinates
52.38406, 1.26878
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitehouse Farmhouse (north) is a 17th-century timber-framed building with a plastered rear wing. It features a steep pantile roof with gabled ends and stands two storeys tall. The front of the farmhouse is an early 19th-century timber-framed structure, also plastered, with a black glazed pantile roof and gabled ends. It has three windows with large early 19th-century two and three-light casements. The central entrance boasts a pilastered doorcase with a cornice and a fielded panel door. There are external brick chimney stacks at each end of the building.

Local climate

Whitehouse Farmhouse (North) sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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