The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. House.

The White House

WRENN ID
seventh-lintel-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
House
Address
The White House, Broad Street, Sutton Valence
OS grid reference
TQ 813 492
Coordinates
51.21351, 0.59556
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a house located on Broad Street in Sutton Valence, dating from the later 18th century, possibly incorporating an earlier core, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of red and grey brick and features a plain tile roof. It has two storeys, a garret, and a basement set on a brick plinth with a rendered base. At each end, there are giant brick pilasters, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice runs around them. The roof is half-hipped to the right, with a brick stack on the left end and a rear stack on the right side of the rear wing.

The front facade includes two 2-storey canted bays from the mid-19th century, each topped with cornices over the ground and first floor windows. The central window is a 4-pane glazing-bar sash in an open box. The central door consists of four fielded panels and two top lights, topped by a corniced bracketed hood, and is accessed by two steps. The central rear wing is also part of the structure. The interior has not been inspected.

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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% 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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