White House is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. A C19 House.
White House
- WRENN ID
- blind-cobble-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- White House, Claife, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 381 941
- Coordinates
- 54.33955, -2.9533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house dated 1827, as indicated by the datestone. It is constructed of roughcast stone and topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and features three bays. The windows are sashed and include glazing bars. The entrance consists of a half-glazed panelled door with a narrow overlight, sheltered by an ogee-headed wire trellis porch. There is a gable-end stack, and the right side of the house has a small light for the attic. At the rear, there is a gabled wing.
Local climate
White House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,570 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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