Thedwastre White House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House. 6 related planning applications.

Thedwastre White House

WRENN ID
steep-quoin-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
House
Address
Thedwastre White House, Thedwastre Road, Thurston, IP31 3QY
OS grid reference
TL 921 649
Coordinates
52.24933, 0.81405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thedwastre White House is a house dating from around 1530, with alterations made around 1840. It has two storeys and features a three-cell cross-entry plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a 19th-century slated roof. There is an axial chimney, with its shaft rebuilt in 19th-century gault brick, and a 19th-century gable chimney on the left. The house has 19th-century casement windows with three lights and a 19th-century entrance door that has six fielded panels, set beneath a simple portico porch supported by slender Doric columns.

Inside, despite the loss of the roof in the 19th century, the house remains a fairly complete example of a mid-16th-century residence. It features tension-braced close-studding, a blocked diamond mullioned window, and evidence of others. The hall contains well-crafted double-ogee moulded first floor joists and beams, while in the parlour, only the main beam is moulded. There are wide open fireplaces, with a moulded lintel over the hall fireplace and two sunk panels of brickwork over the parlour fireplace. The complete cross-passage screen is made of planks and moulded muntins. Although the service end partitions are missing, the unmoulded first floor members are exposed.

Local climate

Thedwastre White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 transaction since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 6 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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