Pair of Cottages About 40 Metres West of White House Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Cottage.
Pair of Cottages About 40 Metres West of White House Farm House
- WRENN ID
- little-sandstone-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- TM 123 744
- Coordinates
- 52.32742, 1.11431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a pair of cottages located about 40 meters west of White House Farm House. It dates from the 15th or early 16th century and has been extended and altered in the early 17th and 19th centuries. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. Originally, it was likely a two-bay open hall with a storeyed lower end, and a parlour bay and stack were added to create a three-cell cross passage plan. The cottages are one storey with an attic.
The entrance is located in the cross passage between the service and hall bays, slightly left of center, featuring a recessed boarded door flanked by two-light glazing bar casements, all with headboards. There is also a three-light gabled dormer. The parlour addition has an entrance to the left of center with a six-light part-opening transomed casement and a hoodboard, along with a two-light gabled dormer. An axial stack is positioned behind the ridge to the right of center. The left gable end includes an entrance and an attic three-light window with bargeboards.
Set back slightly to the right is a lower 19th-century one-storey and attic clay lump addition with two-light casements and a shallow pantiled roof. The rear parlour bays project slightly further with higher eaves, featuring a clay lump and brick outshut. The interior of the earlier cottage on the left has not been inspected, but the parlour contains close studding that is largely concealed, an ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and storey posts, along with three and four-light diamond mullion window openings. The roof has not been inspected.
Local climate
Pair of Cottages About 40 Metres West of 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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