The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. Workhouse/cottages.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-lancet-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Workhouse/cottages
- Address
- The White House, 1 and 2, Sissinghurst Road, Biddenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 846 383
- Coordinates
- 51.1145, 0.63618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a pair of cottages that originally served as the parish workhouse. A large red brick chimneybreast on the north wall features a stone inscribed with "This house was built by the parish 1779," although it is likely that the building is an earlier timber-framed structure that was rebuilt and refaced in that year. The building has two storeys and attics, with a ground floor made of red brick and a first floor that is now rendered, revealing exposed scantlings. The roof is tiled and includes two gabled dormers. There are four casement windows with small square leaded panes, and two doorcases topped with flat hoods, each containing doors with four fielded panels.
Local climate
The White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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