Church House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-entrance-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, the Street, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 985 747
- Coordinates
- 52.33465, 0.91301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a former Methodist chapel that was built by the Primitive Methodists around 1820 and extended in the mid-19th century. It stopped being used as a chapel in 1974. The exterior is rendered with a pantiled roof. The center of the building originally housed the chapel, featuring two long small-paned sash windows in flush frames at the front, a small wooden pentice above, and a small hexagonal window. On each side, there are small storeyed blocks that appear to be extensions, which include small-paned cast iron casement windows. On the south side, there is a late 19th-century four-panelled door with fluted panels and a matching cased surround. Since its conversion into a house, the interior, which was previously quite plain, has been enhanced with various Classical and Regency Gothic fittings, including panelling, panelled doors, and a gallery along the west wall of the former chapel area.
Local climate
Church 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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