The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Villa.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-courtyard-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The White House, the Street, Charmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 363 936
- Coordinates
- 50.73895, -2.90293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a detached villa built in 1827 by Joseph Wilson. It is one of three similar buildings and features stone walls that are stuccoed, along with a stucco plat-band. The villa has a low pyramidal slate roof with projecting modillion eaves and four brick stacks, two located at the left-hand eaves and two at the right-hand eaves. The building is square in plan and double depth, with a coach-house at the rear.
It stands two storeys high and has three windows, which are square sashes with thin glazing bars. The ground floor includes tall French windows, also with thin glazing bars, set in shallow elliptical-headed recesses. The front door is centrally located and is a wood, six-panelled design with a semi-circular fanlight above, featuring glazing bars. The doorway is framed by a reeded pilaster surround with plain imposts and a dropped key above. Note that the trelliswork to the French windows and the iron railings to the street are missing.
Local climate
The White House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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