White House is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.

White House

WRENN ID
odd-plinth-bramble
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White House, 12, Frilford Road, Marcham, OX13 6NS
OS grid reference
SU 454 966
Coordinates
51.66657, -1.34442
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the late 17th century and was remodeled around 1730. The building is constructed from colourwashed limestone rubble and features a gabled roof covered with old tiles, along with stone stacks at each end. It has a three-unit through-passage plan and stands two storeys tall with a three-window range.

Notable architectural features include a fine early 18th-century flat hood with carved consoles and a panelled soffit above a fielded six-panel door. The windows are 19th-century two- and three-light casements, with an early 18th-century bay added to the right, which uses similar materials and has a timber lintel over a 20th-century door and windows, along with a moulded wood cornice. At the rear, there is a 20th-century porch attached to a service wing made of limestone rubble, which has a 20th-century tiled roof, a stone gable end external stack, and an outshut to the left. There is also a 20th-century extension to the left.

Inside No. 12, the left room features a cased beam and a chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace, with adjacent newel stairs. An early 18th-century plank partition with two-panelled doors separates this room from the parlour on the right, which includes panelled shutters, a window seat, and a china closet dating from around 1730. There is a blocked two-light diamond-mullioned stair-light to the left. The first floor has a cased beam, two ribbed doors, and a panelled door, while the attic contains a collar truss and two closed trusses.

Local climate

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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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