The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. Farmhouse.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- second-forge-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Gables, 18, Hilton Road, Fenstanton, PE28 9QP
- OS grid reference
- TL 312 682
- Coordinates
- 52.29679, -0.07668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a late 16th-century farmhouse located on Hilton Road. It has an H-plan layout with two cross-wings and features a rough-cast timber frame and plain tile roofs, some of which have early crested ridge tiles. The building is two stories high and has a continuous jetty that is boxed and returns to the side of the left-hand cross-wing, which includes a dragon beam. There is a 19th-century porch at the angle of the right-hand cross-wing and a canted bay window to the left, featuring hung sash windows with glazing bars. Both floor levels of the left-hand cross-wing have two hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the main range has a set of three similar first-floor windows. The main ridge stack on the left side has been rebuilt using local red brick and features engaged diagonal shafts. The right-hand cross-wing has its own ridge stack, and there is an external end stack at the rear of the left-hand cross-wing made of soft red brick, which includes a moulded brick band and two shafts with a common entablature.
Local climate
The Gables sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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