Aspen Hall is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Farmhouse.
Aspen Hall
- WRENN ID
- haunted-mullion-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Aspen Hall, the Street, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 987 743
- Coordinates
- 52.33111, 0.91574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Aspen Hall, formerly known as Turnpike Farmhouse, is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is two storeys high with attics and features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The building is timber framed and rendered, topped with double Roman tiles. The internal chimney stack has four attached hexagonal shafts with cutwater bases. Each storey has two three-light casement windows with two cross-bars in the lights, and there is a shallow-pitched enclosed gabled porch added around 1900.
At the rear, there is an early 19th-century one-and-a-half storey lean-to addition with a slate roof. Inside, the room to the south of the stack boasts an ornate plaster fireplace with an arched opening, a roll-moulded surround featuring small modillions, and an incised central motif. The main beam has stops with scroll and bar detailing. The original joists, which were set on edge, have been replaced and may have been covered by an ornate plaster ceiling. The staircase is located in its original position behind the stack, leading to the first floor and attics. The roof consists of seven bays that do not align with the wall bays, featuring two rows of unstepped butt purlins with windbraces supporting the upper row.
Local climate
Aspen Hall 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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