The Wilderness White Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Wilderness White Gables
- WRENN ID
- sunken-nave-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wilderness White Gables, 50, Main Street, Empingham, LE15 8PS
- OS grid reference
- SK 955 088
- Coordinates
- 52.66922, -0.58899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century house, originally named The Wilderness, and now subdivided into two properties, No. 50 (White Gables and The Wilderness). It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with quoins, and has stone dressings and a Collyweston slate roof with a moulded stone ridge and wing end stacks. Stone coped gables are present.
The house has an "H" shaped plan, with projecting cross wings. The front has two storeys and five three-light stone mullion windows on each floor, the ground floor windows being hooded. A central doorway features a Tudor arch, leading to a two-leaved, part-glazed door with an overlight, raised up three semi-circular steps. On the left end are similar three-light windows, alongside a French window. The right end also has similar windows. A two-storey extension is visible at the rear, incorporating a door to White Gables.
Local climate
The Wilderness White Gables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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