High Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
High Gables
- WRENN ID
- grey-portal-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Gables, Wetherby Road, Scarcroft, LS14 3AS
- OS grid reference
- SE 365 417
- Coordinates
- 53.87086, -1.44584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Gables is a house dated 1830 by J and T Uttley for W Mann. It is built of rendered brick with ashlar dressings and a Welsh blue-slate roof. The house has an unusual three-cell plan, with the outer cells being double-depth. It is constructed in a Jacobean Revival style and is two and a half storeys high. The front elevation features three gables, each cell facing a different angle, with rusticated quoins. The symmetrical design is notable for its central doorway with a Tudor-arched lintel, a moulded surround with a hood on brackets, and a date plaque to the right of the ground floor. All windows are chamfered mullioned with composite jambs; a two-light window is set in a shaped gable with copings and a lantern finial above the door. Narrow flanking bays contain long chamfered lights, also with a window above. The outer cells project, each featuring a three-light window, with a two-light window above, and an altered attic window set in a shaped gable. The roof is covered with fishscale slate, and a single stack is located to the left of the centre cell.
The left-hand return has two bays of three-light windows with a two-light window above, separated by a single long, narrow light with a matching window above. A lateral stack is also present.
The interior features an octagonal entrance hall with a foliated cornice. Three doorways with architraves flank a basket-archway with moulding and colonnettes, leading to the staircase, which is a closed-string design with turned balusters. The first cell on the left incorporates a cast-iron fireplace in a Neo-Classical style, featuring pilasters, a frieze decorated with palmettes and swags, a dentil cornice, and a carved casement-moulded cornice. A moulded ceiling cornice is also present.
The building was originally known as Mann’s Folly.
Local climate
High Gables receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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