Former Farmhouse at White House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 October 2000. A C18 Farmhouse.

Former Farmhouse at White House Farm

WRENN ID
mired-turret-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 October 2000
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Former Farmhouse at White House Farm, Penrhos, Raglan, Whitecastle
OS grid reference
SO 416 129
Coordinates
51.8118, -2.84741
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former farmhouse at White House Farm dates to the 18th century. It is constructed with rendered front and side elevations, a rear elevation of rubble stone, and a slate roof with a tile ridge. The projecting end stacks have rendered bases, tiled offsets at the verge, brick flues with three oversailing courses at the cap.

The symmetrical two-storey front has a central entrance. Windows are predominantly 2-light designs. On the left of the mullions are opening casements with iron frames; to the right are fixed windows with horizontal zinc glazing bars. The first floor has three windows, the central one a fixed 3+3 pane window flanked by 2-light mullions, each with a 2-pane casement and a 3-pane fixed window. The ground floor windows are taller and follow the same design, with 2-pane casements and 4-pane fixed windows. A gabled slate roofed porch with timber posts (one missing) supports a boarded door at the centre of the front.

The rear roof sweeps lower to form an outshut. The eaves display a 2+2 pane casement window from the 19th century and an 18th century 2-light casement with small rectangular leaded panes. The ground floor has a 1+1 pane casement, followed by a 20th-century single-storey brick porch with a monopitch asbestos roof and metal windows, and then a 2+2 casement window.

A single-storey gabled stone outbuilding is attached to the northeast gable of the house. The front of the outbuilding is an open-fronted pigsty with a cobbled floor and a central stone partition, whilst the rear is a brewhouse containing a boarded half door and a 2-light window with two fixed panes and a metal ventilation grille.

The internal stair lobby leads to a straight staircase which separates a former kitchen with a quarry tile floor from a small parlour. Windows throughout the house feature chamfered centre mullions, turnbuckle catches, and looped handles. A rear dairy has stone slabs supported on brick piers. In the back kitchen, a bread oven has a small boarded door. First floor bedrooms have boarded doors and similar turnbuckle catches and looped handles. The roof space is not accessible. Stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops are also present.

Local climate

Former Farmhouse at White House Farm receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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