The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- frozen-doorway-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Hepworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 974 754
- Coordinates
- 52.34123, 0.89702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a house dating from the 15th century and later. It has one storey and attics, and is now arranged in a three-cell lobby entrance form. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof and an internal chimney stack featuring a plain shaft. The house has 20th-century casement windows and one gabled dormer. The frame consists of four bays, with the eastern bay being an 18th-century extension. The two central bays show signs of having been an open hall, and on the upper storey, there are remains of two long five-light diamond-mullioned windows, with the mullions still in place on the rear wall. The original end tie-beam has been cut through to allow access to the 18th-century addition. The roof is supported by rafters, and the original timbers are very lightweight, including coppice wood. The ceiling of the central ground storey room is a 17th-century insertion.
Local climate
The Old 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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