Butchers is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.

Butchers

WRENN ID
endless-copper-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Butchers, the Street, Hepworth
OS grid reference
TL 985 748
Coordinates
52.33622, 0.91233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butchers is a house dating from the early 18th century, featuring two storeys and a lobby-entrance plan. It is timber-framed and rendered, standing on a high plinth made of brick and kidney flint, with a black-glazed pantiled roof. The house has an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt red brick shaft. There are three 3-light casement windows with cross-bars on each storey, and a 20th-century plank door. The frame consists of six bays, including a chimney bay, with narrow, bisected studs and primary braces. To the south of the chimney stack, there is a three-bay room that shows no correlation between the main posts and the main cross-beams of the ceiling, indicating a possible rearrangement of the space, which may have originally contained two rooms. Attached to the south of the house is a single-storey outbuilding built with similar materials, which used to be a blacksmith's shop, and there is a continuation at right angles that is now a butcher's shop.

Local climate

Butchers 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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