The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- final-bastion-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, 71, High Street, Codicote, SG4 8XD
- OS grid reference
- TL 215 182
- Coordinates
- 51.84971, -0.23608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a house dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, originally timber-framed. The walls are now plastered, and the roof is covered with steep plain tiles. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped footprint. The left side features a projecting 17th-century gable end, where the upper floor juts out, supported by a dragon beam. A tarred red brick plinth runs along the base. The front features a single ground-floor window with 8/8 sashes and panelled shutters, and a three-light casement window on the first floor. The roof structure is of the clasped purlin type. The side elevation displays brick and half-timbering on the ground floor. The rear elevation is notable for a tall chimney stack, dating to the 16th or 17th centuries, built from flint and brick, with a polygonal shaft constructed from tile courses.
Local climate
The Gables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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