Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-cobalt-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak House, Beck Street, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 986 761
- Coordinates
- 52.34783, 0.91529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a house dating from the early 17th century. It has two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance layout. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof. There is an internal chimney stack with a rendered shaft. To the south-west of the stack, there is a flat-roofed 19th-century bay window extension, while the north-east features a pair of casement windows in heavy frames. The upper storey has 2-light small-paned 19th-century casements. A mid-20th-century enclosed gable porch is present. Inside, the ceilings are plain and heavy, with joists set flat in both ground-storey rooms, and there is an original upper ceiling in the upper room on the south-west. The roof has side purlins, and there is no framed chimney bay, suggesting that the two sides of the house may have slightly different construction dates.
Local climate
Oak 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 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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