Gable House is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Gable House
- WRENN ID
- turning-spandrel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gable House, the Street, Salcott, CM9 8HL
- OS grid reference
- TL 949 136
- Coordinates
- 51.78726, 0.82558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable House is an early 14th century timber-framed crosswing, with later modern extensions to the east and west. It is two storeys high, with a jettied and gable-fronted design featuring a red plain tile roof. Modern casement windows are now in place. The original timber frame is largely complete inside, although the partition between the buttery and pantry has been removed. Original features include heavy flat section floor joists and arched wall bracing. The structure incorporates jowled storey posts. The roof is of a short 2-armed crown post construction, featuring arch braced and chamfered, cambered tie beams. The top plate scarfs are simple with splayed ends and under-squinted abuttments.
Local climate
Gable House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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