White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1993. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

White House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
iron-bastion-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1993
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White House Farmhouse, Burgh, IP13 6JP
OS grid reference
TM 247 518
Coordinates
52.11909, 1.2822
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White House Farmhouse is a circa 1840 farmhouse, with an extension dating to circa 1860. The front of the house is built with Flemish bond gault brick, while the rear wing is of red brick. The roof over the front is slate, with lead rolls to the hips and ridge, and deep eaves, while the rear wing has a gable-ended plain tile roof. Brick stacks are located axially and laterally. The original plan comprised a two-room front range, with a central entrance and stair hall, and a single-storey outshut behind the left room. A large wing was added to the rear right, facing the garden.

The symmetrical south front has three bays, with tall two-light casement windows featuring margin panes and flat rubbed brick arches. A central doorway has a rubbed brick round arch, a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, and a six-panel door. Similar windows are found on the right-hand end. The east front of the rear wing has a lateral stack between two gables, and two-light sashes in openings with chamfered brick and labels. A similar opening, with a panelled door, is centrally located. Further windows are present on the rear (west) wall of the rear wing, overlooking the farmyard, and there is a single-storey outshut on the right side of the front range.

The interior remains largely intact and complete, retaining many 19th-century features and joinery. These include chimneypieces with iron grates, a ground floor left room flanked by china cupboards with shaped shelves, pilasters, and arches, a stick-baluster staircase with column newels and a mahogany handrail, panelled doors, and a kitchen with a range and boiler.

Local climate

White House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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