Whitehouse Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1984. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Whitehouse Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-latch-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Whitehouse Farmhouse, Glemham Road, Swefling, IP17 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- TM 352 631
- Coordinates
- 52.21648, 1.44225
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitehouse Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with the front range remodeled in the late 18th century and later rear additions. It has a T-shaped plan and is timber framed, with plaster on the rear and the front range mostly covered in colourwashed brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has two storeys and an attic.
The facade is symmetrical, featuring three windows that are two-light and three-light mullion and transom casements, each with slightly cambered brick arches. The doorway has a six-panel raised and fielded door, flanked by pilasters, with a frieze and a pedimented cornice above. There is a wooden modillion eaves cornice. The front range has a central internal stack, and the rear wing includes one square-leaded window.
Local climate
Whitehouse Farmhouse 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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