The White House, Forecourt Wall, Gate and Gatepiers is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. House, forecourt wall, gate, gatepiers.
The White House, Forecourt Wall, Gate and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- shifting-lime-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- House, forecourt wall, gate, gatepiers
- Address
- The White House, Forecourt Wall, Gate and Gatepiers, Wedmore
- OS grid reference
- ST 438 496
- Coordinates
- 51.24324, -2.8061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White House is a house dating from the early 19th century. It features roughcast walls with end pilasters and has three bays on the left under a slate roof with coped verges and end ashlar stacks. The right bay has a parapet with moulded coping. The building is two storeys tall and has six bays with 16-pane sash windows that have stepped voussoirs. The central door opening is semi-circular with an emphasised keystone and imposts, leading to a six-panelled door set in a recess, topped with a fanlight that has radiating glazing bars. To the right, there is a secondary door opening with a 20th-century glazed door, also featuring stepped voussoirs.
The forecourt wall is made of rubble with a dressed coping and includes a central pedestrian gateway flanked by ashlar piers with moulded and hipped caps, supporting a decorative railed wrought-iron gate. To the right, there is a broader gateway with squared rubble piers that also have moulded and hipped caps, leading to paired wrought and cast-iron gates.
Local climate
The White House, Forecourt Wall, Gate and Gatepiers receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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