Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1985. A 17th century Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Whitehouse Farmhouse

WRENN ID
proud-ember-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Period
17th century
Address
Whitehouse Farmhouse, Covehithe, NR32 5LB
OS grid reference
TM 523 818
Coordinates
52.37645, 1.70598
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitehouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a 19th-century rear wing. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring remnants of ropework pargetting on the facade, and has colourwashed brick on the right-hand gable end. The roof is pantiled, and the building has two storeys plus an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. The windows are small-paned casements, mostly from the mid-20th century. There is a lobby entrance with an early 19th-century colourwashed brick porch, which includes a six-panel door and a pointed-arch fanlight with Y tracery. Inside, there is a heavy internal stack and a smaller internal stack to the left. The interior displays some exposed framing and joists, with the two main rooms on both floors featuring ovolo-moulded floor beams that have additional moulding on the soffits. A newel staircase leads to the first floor.

Local climate

Whitehouse Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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