The White House with terrace and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1950. A C17 House.
The White House with terrace and railings
- WRENN ID
- tattered-arch-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The White House with terrace and railings, Montgomery
- OS grid reference
- SO 222 965
- Coordinates
- 52.56158, -3.14867
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The White House is a house dating from the 17th century, featuring a painted plaster covering over a timber frame, set on a painted rubble stone plinth, with slate roofs. It has two lateral chimneys on the rear wall and presents a three-bay front with a basement and one and a half storeys. The façade includes three gables, with the center gable being smaller and separated by short sections of roof that have projecting eaves. A modern porch is located at the center, leading to a half-glazed door framed by pilasters and an entablature.
On either side of the door, there are rectangular early 19th-century casement pairs, featuring iron glazing bars and Gothic heads on the top panes; the left casement has two lights while the right has three. All gables display 19th-century plain bargeboards and wooden cross-windows. An exposed tie beam across the right gable is inscribed with "Hugh Bennet: and Iohan Bennet: Anno: 1637." The right end wall is rendered, while the left end wall features a small casement pair above and an earlier 19th-century square bay window below. This bay window has cast-iron small-paned lights with Gothic heads on the sides and three Gothic heads with intersecting glazing bars on the front, matching the pattern found on Nos 7, 9, and 11 Arthur Street. The bay includes a door on the left rear side, accessed by a flight of steps with an iron rail.
The rear chimney, made of stone and brick, has been shortened, as indicated by an old photograph. An added wing to the left of one bay includes a brick end stack and is constructed of 19th-century painted brick with dentilled eaves. This wing features a cambered-headed sash window above a wide oriel window that has three full-length windows on the front. The narrower outer sashes are 16-pane, while the center sash is 24-pane with Gothic tracery on the top panes. Below the oriel window is a recessed door and a basement window.
The house is approached by a stone-flagged path that runs along a rubble stone retaining wall topped with iron hooped railings. Steps with plain iron railings rise from the left end. Inside, the timber-framed structure reveals plaster infill in the left ground floor room, with stopped and chamfered axial ceiling beams present in both ground floor rooms. The staircase features turned balusters.
Local climate
The White House with terrace and railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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