The Poplars is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
The Poplars
- WRENN ID
- open-moulding-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Poplars, the Street, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 989 743
- Coordinates
- 52.33105, 0.91789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Poplars is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century and was altered in the mid-19th century. It has an L-shaped form and stands two storeys high. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a pantiled roof on the front range. There are two chimney stacks on the rear wall, each with two shafts and attached heads.
At the center of the front is a two-storey gabled porch, with the upper storey jettied and supported on brackets. The ground floor has three-light 19th-century casement windows with a transom, while the upper storey features plain two-light casements set in small projecting square bays, which are bracketed below and have small gablets above. All gables and gablets are adorned with 19th-century finials and pierced and fluted barge-boards. At the rear, there is a long mid-19th-century wing with a slate roof.
Local climate
The Poplars 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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