Barn at White House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Barn. 1 related planning application.
Barn at White House Farm
- WRENN ID
- riven-turret-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barn at White House Farm, the Street, Burstall
- OS grid reference
- TM 098 445
- Coordinates
- 52.05933, 1.0603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn at White House Farm is a 17th-century structure that was extended in the early 19th century. It features weatherboard cladding over a timber frame, resting on a brick plinth, and has a gabled roof made of corrugated asbestos. The barn has a nine-bay layout with threshing floors located in the second and seventh bays. There are plank double doors on the west side and lean-to midstreys on the east side.
Inside, the original 17th-century section of the barn consists of four bays with mid rails in the wall framing. It has jowled wall posts supporting beams, which include one surviving set of arch braces, while the others have been replaced with 19th-century knee braces. The roof is a collar-truss design featuring a complete set of curved windbraces supporting the clasped purlins. The early 19th-century extension has a lighter framing without mid rails, knee braces on the tie beams, and nailed collars on the trusses. There are also 20th-century sheds and 19th-century outbuildings attached to the barn, but these do not hold special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
Barn at White House Farm sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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