Little Gable is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.

Little Gable

WRENN ID
ruined-cellar-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1985
Type
House
Address
Little Gable, 23, West End Road, Silsoe
OS grid reference
TL 080 354
Coordinates
52.00712, -0.42741
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Gable is a house that has been subdivided into two properties and dates back to the 16th century. It features timber-framed construction, with some parts exposed and brick infill on the gable of number 23, while the rest is rendered. The roof was replaced in the 20th century with tiles. The building has a T-plan and stands two storeys tall.

The left-hand block, which is number 21, has two-light horizontal sash windows with glazing bars: one on the ground floor and two on the first floor. On the ground floor to the right, there is a 19th-century canted bay window with sashes and a 20th-century door set in a lean-to porch. The right-hand gable, number 23, features 20th-century three-light casement windows, one on each floor, along with a 20th-century door and porch to the left. A 19th-century yellow brick multiple ridge stack is located on the main block, and there is a substantial external stack on the right side wall of the gable, both topped with linked moulded octagonal shafts.

Local climate

Little Gable sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% 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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