Gable End is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1979. House.
Gable End
- WRENN ID
- graven-parapet-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gable End, the Square, Hockliffe
- OS grid reference
- SP 974 265
- Coordinates
- 51.92929, -0.58403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable End is a 17th-century timber-framed building located on the south-west side of Watling Street in Hockliffe. It features whitewashed brick nogging and is one storey high with attics. The roof is made of corrugated iron. The north elevation has four eyebrow dormers, while the ground floor has five casement windows. The gable end faces the road.
Local climate
Gable End 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 77% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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