White House Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

White House Farm House

WRENN ID
haunted-pewter-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White House Farm House, the Common, Mellis
OS grid reference
TM 099 747
Coordinates
52.33029, 1.07937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White House Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, and it has a plaintiled roof. The building has a three-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high with an attic.

On the ground floor, the entrance is located to the right of the centre and consists of a four-panelled architraved door. To the left of the entrance is a large architraved transomed three-light glazing bar casement, followed by a 19th-century flat-headed canted bay window. The first floor has three-light glazing bar casements and a small early opening, all with architraves. There is a rebuilt axial ridge stack behind the entrance, and a 19th-century stack has been inserted between the hall and the service end to the left.

The left gable end features original curved brackets to the plates and a four-light window on the first floor. The right gable end also has original curved brackets to the plates, with a ground floor lean-to outshut and architraved glazing bar casements on both the first floor and attic. At the rear, there is a half-glazed door leading into the hall, with a first floor architraved sash and a ground floor canted bay window behind the parlour. A low gabled clay lump dairy addition is located behind the service end. Attached to the left is an early 20th-century single-storey addition with a gable end facing the front and a stack at the rear.

Inside, the farmhouse features close studding, a ground floor five-light chamfered mullioned window opening, and a stop chamfered binding beam. The stairs are positioned in front of the stack, and there is a first floor four-light window with a stud as the king mullion, flanked by diamond mullions. The interior also includes large cranked braces from jowled posts to cambered tie beams, a butt purlin roof with arched braces to the collars, cranked windbraces, and a ridge piece. The site is partly moated.

Local climate

White House Farm House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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