The Pepperbox Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Pepperbox Inn
- WRENN ID
- scattered-cloister-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Pepperbox Inn, Windmill Hill, Ulcombe, ME17 1LP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 858 500
- Coordinates
- 51.21962, 0.66016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pepperbox Inn is a public house from the 18th century, located on Ulcombe Windmill Hill. The building is constructed of painted stone and features a plain tile roof. It has two storeys and an attic, set on a rendered plinth, with a dentilled brick eaves cornice and brick gable end stacks. There is a hipped dormer and an irregular arrangement of four leaded casement windows with narrow top lights, including three three-light windows and one two-light window over the porch. The ground floor windows have segmental heads. An off-centre ribbed door is located to the right under a weatherboarded porch, which also has a lean-to on the right side. At the rear, there is a lean-to and short parallel rear wings to the right, both of two storeys with hipped roofs. The interior has only been partly inspected, revealing exposed beams of relatively heavy scantling on the ground floor and an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
The Pepperbox Inn sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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