White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
White House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- noble-keep-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- White House Farmhouse, Stoney Road, Grundisburgh, IP13 6RR
- OS grid reference
- TM 212 513
- Coordinates
- 52.11637, 1.22972
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with an addition dated 1834. The building is timber framed, featuring colourwashed render and whitewashed Flemish bond brick, topped with a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall with a double-ridge plan.
The entrance front showcases the 1834 section, which projects with three symmetrically arranged bays. At the center, there is a classical door surround with framed convex panels on either side and brackets supporting a shelf-porch. The door consists of six raised and fielded panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight with intersecting tracery. Flanking the door on the ground floor are sash windows with four panes by four panes, featuring flat-arched heads and slightly projecting brick bays. On the first floor, there are two lateral windows, also with four panes by four panes, adorned with panelled lintels, and a central bullseye window dating from the 20th century. Above the door is a rectangular datestone inscribed with "W.C 1834." The early 19th-century portion has a hipped roof, while the 17th-century section has a gabled roof.
To the left of the entrance, there is one bay of the 17th-century range, which includes a ground floor sash window with three panes by four panes and a two-light window on the first floor. The left side of the building features, on the early 19th-century portion, a two-light casement window with a flat head, which is a 20th-century metal-framed insertion. To the left is the end of the 17th-century wing, which has a three-light 20th-century French window on the ground floor. The right end has a 20th-century brick outshut extending along the entire ground floor. The 17th-century range on the right has a central brick chimney stack and two single-light windows to the left of it.
At the rear, the glazing is entirely from the 19th and 20th centuries, with a doorway located left of center. There are two two-light windows to the left of the doorway and a single-light and three-light casement window to the right. On the first floor, there are three two-light windows, with a four-light casement window positioned left of center. An axial ridge stack made of 19th-century brick with two flues is located on the right.
Inside, the ground floor rooms feature chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
White House 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 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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