The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- waning-pier-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House, Abbotsham, EX39 5BG
- OS grid reference
- SS 427 273
- Coordinates
- 51.02404, -4.24361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house dating from around 1830. It is built of colourwashed stucco, originally with a scribed ashlar appearance over coursed slatestone rubble, with a hipped slate roof. The roof features bracketed eaves and early 19th-century iron guttering decorated with lions' mask motifs. Rendered brick stacks mark the ends and the interior. The house follows a double-depth plan and is in a late Georgian style.
The front elevation has a symmetrical arrangement of 1:3:2 windows. A semi-circular arched doorway with a fanlight gives access to a mid-19th-century four-panelled door. Flat rendered arches are above the 12-pane sash windows. There are three smaller 20th-century windows to the right end of the ground floor.
Inside, the early 19th-century dog-leg staircase has a landing with fret-cut brackets, a wreathed handrail, and a wrought-iron balustrade similar to that found at Kenwith Castle.
Local climate
The White House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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