Whitehouse refers to an area in North West Area of the town

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...

, in the

district, in the county of

Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

, England. The name comes from a late 17th Century building which still exists and is a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

near Norwich Road, but now accessed by Limerick Close. The

Whitehouse Ward, Ipswich Whitehouse Ward is a ward in the North West Area of the town and district of Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. It returns three councillors to Ipswich Borough Council. It is designated Middle Layer Super Output Area Ipswich 003 by the ...

takes its name from the area.

The White House

The White House itself is next to White House Park. It was a substantial country house on the edge of the village – until it became absorbed into Ipswich as the town grew during the first half of the 20th Century. It can be accessed from Limerick Close. It is listed as Grade II, which still stands on the edge of the White House estate. It also boasts a gate lodge on Norwich Road. It was Built as a small country house in the late 17th century and altered in the early 19th century with late 19th century additions. It retains its complete 17th century roof structure. It was used for many years as local government offices. Lovetofts Drive: running north from the end of Bramford Lane to Whitehouse Road is named after

John de Lovetot Sir John de Lovetot (b. 1236 or before, d. 1294) was an administrator and later Justice of the Common Pleas between 1275 and 1289. He had already been knighted when he entered the service of Edward I. Prior to that he had performed administrative ...

who had a grant of free warren there in 1277. He died in 1295. There was a manor house known as Lovetofts Hall and a nearby farmhouse which was still shown on the 1955 Ordnance Survey map, but had disappeared by the 1959 map.

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