Pepys House is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1954. House.
Pepys House
- WRENN ID
- high-clay-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pepys House, Green Hill, Woolpit
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 623
- Coordinates
- 52.22422, 0.88902
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pepys House, formerly known as Surgery Cottage, is a mid 16th century house located in Woolpit Green Hill. The building has two storeys and features three windows. It is constructed from timber framing and plaster, with the upper floor jettied towards the street. A moulded bressumer is present, and the close-studding is complemented by tension stud bracing at the corners. The ground storey walling is underbuilt in 20th century painted brick. The house has a thatched roof, which includes a central 17th century chimney made of red brick. On the first storey, there are three 17th or 18th century casement windows with leaded glazing, while the ground storey has 20th century casements and a circular window. The entrance door, which is from the 19th century, has six panels. The first floor members are unmoulded, and the roof features clasped purlins.
Local climate
Pepys House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
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