The Gables is a Grade II* listed building in the Harlow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 July 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- tired-lime-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Harlow
- Constituency
- Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 July 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, Fore Street, CM17 0AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 471 115
- Coordinates
- 51.78321, 0.13232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 15th-century house with an H-plan configuration. It is two storeys high, with the hall range having a ridge higher than the cross wings. The east cross wing has jettied elements supported by knees, and features fully exposed timber framing. A casement window with beaded detail is visible on a tie beam, while a painted four-centred doorway is also present. The roofs are ridged and gabled, with a main chimney stack constructed of red peg-tile bricks. An original ovolo-moulded casement window remains on the first storey of the east wing. The hall range incorporates an 18th-century door framed by a mutuled pediment and a triglyphed entablature, adorned with reeded Doric half columns, a lion-mask knocker, and small-paned sash windows under flat lead tops. Two pairs of small-paned sash windows are on the first storey. The west wing includes a semi-hexagonal bay window on the first storey with small-paned sashes, and a Victorian shop front on the ground storey.
Local climate
The Gables sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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