Gables Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Gables Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-wattle-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gables Cottage, School Lane, Silk Willoughby, NG34 8PH
- OS grid reference
- TF 050 430
- Coordinates
- 52.97446, -0.4364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gables Cottage is a house dating back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a hipped and gabled pantiled roof. The building features single ridge and gable stacks with moulded cornices. The two-story, three-bay front has a central pent roofed porch with a planked door set within a moulded four-centred arched surround. A 3-light mullioned window of the 20th century is to the left, and a 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window from the 17th century is to the right. The first floor displays a similar window to the right, and a further 20th-century mullioned window to the left.
Local climate
Gables Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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