The White House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1973. House.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- burning-entrance-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House, Main Street, Gawcott with Lenborough
- OS grid reference
- SP 679 318
- Coordinates
- 51.98138, -1.01147
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exterior is rendered, likely over stone and brick, and is painted, featuring a thatched roof with brick stacks at the ends and along the ridge. The house has a three-unit lobby entry plan and is two stories high with a three-window front. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door with glazed top panels and a gabled hood supported by struts. On the ground floor, there are three-light leaded casement windows, with the one on the far right having a wooden lintel. The first floor has a two-light casement window on the right and a pair of three-light leaded casements on the left, with the leftmost window containing old glass. At the rear left, there is a two-storey wing made of coursed rubble, topped with a slate roof and featuring brick stacks. Inside, the house has chamfered spine beams, stud partitions, and an open fireplace with an unusual bressumer that is moulded and cambered, featuring an incised head in the center and other incised ornamentation.
Local climate
The White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% 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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