Spexhall White House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Farmhouse.
Spexhall White House
- WRENN ID
- first-bracket-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Spexhall White House, Church Lane
- OS grid reference
- TM 384 809
- Coordinates
- 52.37477, 1.50194
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spexhall White House is a late 16th-century farmhouse with an L-shaped plan, featuring two storeys and attics. The building is primarily constructed of timber framing and rendered surfaces, with some areas of whitewashed brick. The front slopes of the roof are covered with 20th-century single Roman tiles, while the rear has black glazed pantiles. An internal chimney stack in the main range has a plain rebuilt red brick shaft and a corbelled head.
Most windows are 20th-century casements, either two-light or three-light, located on the ground floor and in the gable end, some with transoms. At the rear of the main range, where the wall is faced with brick, there are 19th-century mullion-and-transom windows on each storey. In the northeast corner, there is a 1½-storey early 19th-century brick lean-to extension that includes a porch with two arched doorways, a pointed two-light Gothick window, and a recessed door with four sunk panels. This extension has a slate roof, a dentil cornice, and an inserted late 19th-century canted bay with a slate roof and three large-paned sash windows.
Inside, the principal two-bay room in the main range features multiple roll-mouldings on the main beam and the two beams in the partition walls, with the mouldings extending down the posts, similar to those found at Manor Farmhouse in Wissett. The parlour, located on the southeast side, has reeded architraves around the doorway and windows, along with panelled shutters, all dating from around 1830. The cross-wing contains the service rooms. On the upper floor, the main posts have long jowls and lack braces. Both ranges of the building are contemporary, with roofs that include clasped side purlins, a lower row of butt purlins, and remnants of arched windbraces.
Local climate
Spexhall White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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