White House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1955. House, former shop.
White House
- WRENN ID
- blind-zinc-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1955
- Type
- House, former shop
- Address
- White House, the Street, Metfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 294 803
- Coordinates
- 52.37299, 1.36983
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House, formerly known as Squire's Shop, is a house and former shop that likely dates back to the 17th century, with a later shop range added to the right. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster and a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic in the main section, arranged in a two-cell form. There are two windows on each range, consisting of three-light mullion and transom casements with large panes. The house includes a lobby entrance with a six-panelled raised and fielded door, a rectangular fanlight with glazing bars, pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. An internal stack is present. To the right, there is an impressive early 19th-century shop front featuring two slightly bowed windows, each containing 50 small panes. The central doorway has a six-panelled door with a rectangular panel above, displaying the name "SQUIRE" in applied letters. The doorway and windows are framed by pilasters, with a frieze and cornice above.
Local climate
White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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