The White House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. A C18/C19 House. 6 related planning applications.
The White House
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-storey-dew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House, 72, High Street, Marlow, SL7 1AH
- OS grid reference
- SU 849 864
- Coordinates
- 51.57018, -0.77541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
House, built around 1730 and significantly altered around 1820. It is now offices. The building is brick, with a stuccoed front dating to the early 19th century, and has gabled plain tile roofs and brick end stacks. It has a double-depth plan and stands three stories high, originally with a two-window front.
The front features two three-story bow windows, each with projecting reeded cornices over early 19th century tripartite sash windows. To the right is a similar cornice set over Tuscan columns, supporting a 20th-century door with strip lights set within a reeded architrave with roundels. A deep cornice runs along the roofline. The rear and left side walls feature early 19th century 12-pane sashes. Number 72 is connected to Number 74 by a wooden bridge with octagonal glazing bars to its first-floor windows.
Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room has early 19th century reeded cornices and architraves, while the room to the right features a moulded cornice, early 19th century panelling, and segmental-arched doorways leading to service areas. At the rear are two identical early 18th century dog-leg staircases with bindings, panelled dados, and moulded handrails on turned balusters. The house has both 18th century fielded panel doors and early 19th century panelled doors. Reeded cornices and architraves with roundels are found in first-floor rooms.
Number 72 was originally built as two dwellings before being converted into a single house in the early 19th century, retaining its two 18th-century staircases. A projecting plinth and wide flat eaves on a reeded bed mould are prominent features. The building is part of a group with numbers 78 and 80.
Local climate
The White House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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