White House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. A C17 House.
White House
- WRENN ID
- white-wall-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- White House, Lower Road, Faversham
- OS grid reference
- TR 004 611
- Coordinates
- 51.31406, 0.87479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a 17th-century house originally built for a gunpowder worker, with extensions and alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed of brick and features a right-hand brick gable stack and a steep tiled roof.
The building has a single-depth, one-room plan with an additional room added to the left of the entrance and an extended top rear outshut. It is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range. The earlier part of the house, located on the right, is built in English bond and includes a plinth and plat band, a door, and a segmental-arched ground-floor window, along with similar windows in the left-hand gable. The glazing is from the late 20th century, and there is a rear catslide outshut.
Historically, the White House was described in 1806 as a millman's house and was occupied by workers at the Ospringe Mill, a small 18th-century gunpowder mill that was part of the Home Mills, which the government purchased in 1759 to establish the first Royal Gunpowder Works.
Local climate
White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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