The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- white-lead-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House, 5, Watchbell Street, Rye, TN31 7HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 202
- Coordinates
- 50.9495, 0.73318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is an 18th-century building of three storeys and three windows, altered around 1910. It is part of a group with Nos. 1 to 5 Watchbell Street. The building is now faced with roughcast and has a parapet. The original glazing bars remain intact. Modern Venetian shutters have been added, along with two modern bays on the ground floor.
Local climate
The White House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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