White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A Tudor Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

White House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
blind-frieze-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Period
Tudor
Address
White House Farmhouse, Moorbridge Lane, Harleston, IP14 3JH
OS grid reference
TM 016 611
Coordinates
52.21142, 0.95
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White House Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the 16th century, built in two stages, with an additional range added at right angles in the 18th century. It originally had a three-cell plan and consists of one storey with attics, while the parlour block is two storeys high. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plaintiled roofs and an axial chimney with a shaft made of 19th-century gault brick. There are two gabled casement dormers in the lower range, and the windows are mainly early to mid-20th century small-pane casements. The entrance door is framed and boarded, dating from the 20th century, with two glazed panels and an open flat-roofed porch.

The lower range facing the road dates from the mid-16th century and displays arch-braced studwork, with shutter rebates for mullioned windows and a clasped-purlin roof. Three bays remain, and the western end has an adapted truss where cruck-formed knees support a collar-beam, which is likely a shortened version of the original tie-beam. Between 1560 and 1580, a parlour block was added, showcasing good close-studding and blocked mullioned windows, with an unusually flattened mullion profile featuring rib-and-cavetto mouldings. Inside, there is an open late 16th-century fireplace with a cambered lintel located in the hall.

Local climate

White House Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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