The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 August 1984. House.

The White House

WRENN ID
patient-mortar-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 August 1984
Type
House
Address
The White House, Gloucester Road, Swainswick
OS grid reference
ST 761 680
Coordinates
51.41079, -2.34425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a detached house built in the early 19th century. It features a rendered exterior with a tarred slate roof and coped raised verges, along with a coped parapet and a moulded cornice. The house has three storeys and displays four tall two-light casement windows and a central panelled and glazed door on the ground floor. The upper floors include three glazing bar sash windows and additional casement windows. There is a cill band below the second floor and a projecting verandah adorned with a decorative wrought iron balustrade.

Local climate

The White House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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