The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gable-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, Darrow Lane, Roydon, IP22 5SA
- OS grid reference
- TM 094 812
- Coordinates
- 52.38903, 1.0768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a 17th-century house with a plastered timber frame. It features a very steep gable-ended roof covered with tiles and stands two storeys high. The central part of the house includes a two-storey plus attic gabled porch, with a lower gabled wing on the side. There is an off-centre forge brick chimney stack and a gabled cross wing at the east end (left), which has an old door with fillet moulds. The house mainly has three-light casement windows, some of which are from the 17th century and have leaded panes. To the west of the house, there are remains of a moat.
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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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