White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
White House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-spire-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- White House Farmhouse, Dublin Road, Occold, IP23 7PY
- OS grid reference
- TM 159 700
- Coordinates
- 52.28652, 1.16546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th to 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a slated roof. The building features pierced bargeboards and has two storeys plus an attic. There are four windows, with two on each side of the porch; the pair on the left are widely spaced and consist of 6-paned sashes in flush frames. The ground floor windows are adorned with console-bracketed cornices. To the left, there are 20th-century French windows set within a 19th-century surround, which also has a bracketed cornice.
To the right of the centre is a two-storey porch made of white brick, dating from the early to mid-19th century. This porch has clasping pilaster strips that extend above the parapet, and a pedimented parapet at the front and sides. The doorway features fluted pilasters and an entablature, with a four-panel door that has glazed upper panels. Above the door is an inset sash window set under a flat brick arch. The farmhouse has two internal stacks, with the white brick shafts likely being contemporary with the porch. There are also rear additions, mostly from the 19th century. The interior has not been examined.
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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