The Stella Pepper Gyles House is one of several houses built in a concentration southwest of Georgetown by the Pepper Family during the early to mid-19th century. The concentration is a good example of the pattern occurring in Delaware and elsewhere during that period of the division of large family land holdings by inheritance. The earliest of the Pepper Houses still standing is the David Carlton Pepper Farm situated one-half mile away from the Gyles House. The earlier structure is by far the more elegant of the two, though they are similar in style. The Stella Pepper Gyles House is extremely plain, though its construction appears of high quality. Like the other Pepper House, it possesses a brick milk house, an extremely rare structure for its place and time. The existence of the two brick structures is explained by the fact that the family owned a brick kiln about one-half mile from the Gyles House along present Delaware Road 62. - NRHP, 11 September 1979