The Gables is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Gables

WRENN ID
calm-baluster-sedge
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1983
Type
House
Address
The Gables, 31, High Street, Ramsey, PE26 1AB
OS grid reference
TL 286 849
Coordinates
52.4478, -0.10914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gables is a medieval hall featuring two cross-wings, constructed over three building periods, with an early 19th-century rear extension and later single-storey extensions to the east of the street facade. The building stands two storeys high and is timber-framed, covered in 19th-century gault brick. It has steeply pitched plain tile gable roofs, a tall ridge stack, and an end stack at the rear of the east cross-wing. The street facade showcases pierced and shaped barge boards with finials, stone hood moulds over 2-light casement windows that have glazing bars, chamfered reveals, and stone sills. There is also a canted 4-light bay window with a plain tile roof on the hall.

Inside, the exposed timber framing suggests that the east wing predates the 15th-century hall and may date back to the early 14th century, while the west cross-wing is from the late 16th century. The interior features three ingle nook hearths.

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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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