The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1983. Villa. 6 related planning applications.

The White House

WRENN ID
rusted-buttress-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheltenham
Constituency
Tewkesbury MP: Cameron Thomas (Ind)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1983
Type
Villa
Address
The White House, Kingsmead Road, GL51 0AR
OS grid reference
SO 927 238
Coordinates
51.91282, -2.10625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The White House is a villa built around 1810, featuring stucco over brick and a double-pitch slate roof. It has a right rear stack and end stacks on the main range, along with a wrought-iron verandah, porch, and balcony.

The exterior consists of two storeys above a basement on the right side of the main range. It has three first-floor windows and a tall single-storey, two-bay extension to the right, as well as a one plus five window return extension. The windows on the main range's first floor are 8/8 sashes with margin-lights that include coloured glass. The ground floor has two 20th-century tall French windows with glazing bars, one of which is set in a breakforward position. The extension features tall 4/4 sashes, all set in plain reveals with sills. The central entrance to the main range has three steps leading up to 20th-century glazed double doors. The main range also has a cornice and blocking course with copings. The rear range contains 8/8 and 6/6 sashes.

Inside, the property retains original joinery and plasterwork, including two doorways in the hall with reeded architraves and corner blocks, panelled shutters on the windows, and a staircase with a wreathed handrail.

Notable subsidiary features include a ground floor verandah to the left with scrolls on the uprights and a frieze that continues as a porch, and a central balcony on the first floor adorned with a scrolled double heart motif.

Local climate

The White House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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