White House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.
White House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- twisted-keep-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- White House Farmhouse, Southolt
- OS grid reference
- TM 203 703
- Coordinates
- 52.28719, 1.22926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White House Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, which was restored between 1984 and 1986. The building is timber framed with mid-20th century panelled render and a colourwashed brick gable end to the left, likely from around 1700. It features a pantiled roof and stands two storeys high with an attic. The structure has a two-cell form, although a probable third cell to the left is now missing. The fenestration is scattered, with mullioned casements dating from around 1985, and the main windows have 4-centre arched heads for each light. There is a 19th-century four-panel door and two gabled dormers from around 1985. External stacks are present at each gable end, with the right stack dating from the 19th century. Internally, the full-height studding is mostly intact, featuring reverse-curved braces. There are traces of many original windows and mortices for diamond mullions in the right cell, which served as the service end. The left gable end shows no evidence of studding, suggesting that the house may have originally extended further. The floors have plain joists set flat, and there is a cambered tie beam in the cross-partition. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with incomplete wind bracing.
Local climate
White House Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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