The White House is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.

The White House

WRENN ID
forbidden-porch-indigo
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
The White House, 31, Ashford Road, Tenterden, TN30 6LL
OS grid reference
TQ 885 336
Coordinates
51.07159, 0.69061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is an 18th-century building of two storeys and attics. It is stuccoed, with a tiled roof featuring two dormers and a modillion eaves cornice. A stringcourse runs along the facade. The building has three windows. The ground floor features Venetian windows with painted Gothic panes in the upper portions of the central window. Above, there are three-light, square-headed windows with pilasters between the lights, all retaining their original glazing bars. The doorway has a rusticated doorcase with Ionic pilasters, a pediment, and a six-panel moulded door, where the top two panels are cut away and glazed. The White House is part of a group of buildings, comprising numbers 31 to 37.

Local climate

The 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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