Twin Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1980. House.
Twin Gables
- WRENN ID
- cold-outpost-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Twin Gables, Ipswich Road, Elmsett
- OS grid reference
- TM 057 466
- Coordinates
- 52.07988, 1.00104
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Twin Gables is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered building featuring a thatched roof and a central ridge chimney stack. It has one storey and attics, with small casement windows. The front of the building includes two gabled dormers and a gabled latticed porch that projects outward.
Local climate
Twin Gables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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