Gable Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Gable Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-keystone-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Gable Cottage, Church Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 138
- Coordinates
- 51.81135, -0.29538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, originally built with a timber frame and later refronted in the early 19th century with painted brick. It features a steeply pitched plain tile roof, which has a tall 17th-century ridge chimney stack located at the right center. The building has one storey and attics, and showcases three steep gable ends with dentilled brick eaves. There are three casement windows. Inside, the right side includes chamfered floor beams and an inglenook fireplace. The left end may be an extension.
Local climate
Gable Cottage 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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