The Pepperbox is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Folly.
The Pepperbox
- WRENN ID
- leaning-remnant-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- The Pepperbox, Southampton Road, Whiteparish
- OS grid reference
- SU 212 248
- Coordinates
- 51.02276, -1.69833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pepperbox is a folly built in the early 18th century, with its roof rebuilt around 1900. It is likely designed by Giles Eyre of Brickworth House. The structure is made of English bond brick and features a Welsh slate roof, with a hexagonal plan. It stands three storeys tall, with one blocked window on each face. The ground floor has segmental-headed doorways, and the first floor includes windows with three-brick plat bands. The second floor is distinguished by a stepped cornice and blocked windows with timber lintels. The building has a stepped eaves cornice and a hexagonal conical roof topped with a weathervane. The Pepperbox is prominently located on Pepperbox Hill, offering fine views, and is also known as Eyre's Folly.
Local climate
The Pepperbox receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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