White House Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1994. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
White House Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-span-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- White House Farm Cottage, A421, Buckingham, MK18 7DT
- OS grid reference
- SP 723 333
- Coordinates
- 51.99388, -0.94747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White House Farm Cottage is a pair of farm cottages, now combined into a single dwelling, dating to around 1870. It was designed by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond, the principal landowner in Bourton. The cottage is constructed of red brick in English bond to the ground floor and timber framing with rendered and pebbledashed infill to the first floor, with a plain-tile roof and brick lateral stacks. The building has a combined L-plan or zigzag plan.
The two-storey, two-window front features a chamfered, Tudor-arched brick doorway located just left of a projecting cross wing. The doorway leads to an open internal porch with a small square window to the rear wall and a door to the interior. There is a four-light casement window to the ground floor left of the door, set within a segmental-arched surround with a blank tympanum, and a smaller one-light casement to the ground floor far left with a flat-arched head. A large projecting lateral stack, featuring a diaper pattern in purple brick headers, sits between the windows. The first floor is timber-framed, supported by a moulded bressumer, with rectangular panels. A dormer gable above the doorway contains a two-light casement.
The cross wing projects to the right end and has a similar four-light casement to the ground floor. Curved stone brackets support the oversail of the timber-framed first floor, and a three-light casement is located in the gable. Both gables have moulded bargeboards and pendant finials. A 20th century porch is attached to the right of the cross wing. A large projecting lateral stack on the right side of the cross wing has four brick diagonal flues. The roof has a diaper pattern of darker tiles on this side. The left end elevation of the main block also has an oversail supported by curved stone brackets and a three-light casement to the gable. A full-height wing extends to the rear left. The rear elevation has no exposed timbers and features a casement window in the dormer gable. Tile-hung dormer and wing gables are visible. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
White House Farm Cottage 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 5 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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