The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1974. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- graven-cornice-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, Buxton Road, Ashbourne, DE6 2AQ
- OS grid reference
- SK 178 474
- Coordinates
- 53.02385, -1.73479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a 19th-century house built in a Jacobean revival style. It is constructed of red brick with a banded tiled roof, and features fretted bargeboards to the gable ends. The chimneys have linked shafts. The garden elevation has three windows, with ornate glazing. There is a two-storey bay window and a single-storey bay window. Other windows are distinguished by dripstone moulds. A central gabled porch, with fretted bargeboards and a finial, provides access. A single window is present in the gable end facing the road.
Local climate
The Gables receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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