White House Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. House.

White House Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
tattered-landing-starling
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
House
Address
White House Farm Cottage, Marsh Lane, Henstead with Hulver Street
OS grid reference
TM 498 861
Coordinates
52.41664, 1.6731
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White House Farm Cottage is a house with a left-hand portion that has a core dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. The rest of the building was likely reconstructed in the late 18th century to create a pair of farm cottages. The earlier portion has a timber-framed core, while the rest is built of red brick, topped with a thatched roof. The cottage is two storeys high with attics and features two windows with 18th-century three-light casements set under flat brick arches. There is a central blank panel on the ground floor, with a boarded door to the left; the doorway on the right has been bricked up. A central axial stack is present, and there are later single-storey additions at both gable ends. Inside, the earlier core of the house displays exposed joists and a bridging beam with broach stop-chamfers. Similar stop-chamfers can be seen on two rear wall posts and on the girding beam next to the stack. Some 17th-century framing is exposed in the rear wall, but the roof is of a later date.

Local climate

White House Farm Cottage 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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