The White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352330
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1352330
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetherden
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00781 62789
Details
WETHERDEN CHURCH LANE TM 06 SW
4/212 The White House 09/12/55
GV II
Former farmhouse, c.1600. 2 storeys and attics. 3-cell lobby-entrance plan; an unusually complete example. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roof with axial original chimney of buff/pink brick with sawtooth shaft. Mainly C18/C19 casements of 3 lights; over the entrance is one original ovolo- mullioned window, in the gables are original diamond-mullioned windows, and in the rear wall is another at 1st storey which projects slightly in oriel fashion. C19 boarded entrance door. The framing is fully exposed internally. The parlour has close-studding, an ovolo-moulded bridging beam and a fireplace lintel to match. Another lintelled fireplace in the hall and two arched fireplaces in the chambers complete with hearths. Two-tier bide purlin roof: the upper tier clasped and wind-braced and the lower tier butted between principal rafters. A short central rear wing appears original.
Listing NGR: TM0078162789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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