Pepper Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Pepper Cottage

WRENN ID
fallen-minaret-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 May 1988
Type
House
Address
Pepper Cottage, Pepper Lane, Thurston, IP31 3RA
OS grid reference
TL 926 645
Coordinates
52.245, 0.82006
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Pepper Cottage is likely a house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It is a two-story building with a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. An original axial chimney has a rebuilt shaft made of 19th-century red brick, and there is a 19th-century chimney on the right side. Small-pane casement windows were installed in 1986. A late 16th or early 17th century diamond mullioned window has been exposed and reglazed. A framed and boarded door, installed in 1986, is located at the lobby-entrance position. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Pepper Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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