Little Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Little Gables

WRENN ID
open-ledge-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 November 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Little Gables, Alphamstone Road, Lamarsh, CO8 5ES
OS grid reference
TL 888 356
Coordinates
51.98702, 0.74905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Gables is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It is timber framed and has plastered walls with some exposed framing, topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of three bays and features a near-central chimney stack facing south, alongside an 18th-century external chimney stack at the left end. There is a lean-to extension with a slate roof at the right end, which dates from the 19th or 20th century. The cottage has a rear wing with an end stack, forming a T-plan, and includes lean-to extensions at the rear and on each side. It is one storey high with attics and has two casement windows, which include re-sited 18th-century wrought iron casements, as well as one 20th-century casement in the right extension. The front door, which is in a Gothick style and dates from the early 20th century, has a fanlight above it. The roof is gambrel in style.

Local climate

Little 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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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