The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- riven-corridor-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, the Street, Earl Soham, IP13 7SA
- OS grid reference
- TM 235 632
- Coordinates
- 52.22222, 1.27171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a house with a 17th century core and a late 19th century facade, located on the south side of The Street in Earl Soham. The building is timber framed and plastered, with the plaster designed to imitate ashlar, and it has a thatched roof. It is a single storey with an attic. The windows are casement style, featuring tall rectangular lights divided by a single horizontal glazing bar, and there are hood moulds above them. The doorway is asymmetrical and includes a thatched porch and a boarded door. There are two gabled half-dormers with scalloped bargeboards. To the left, there is a gabled wing that is set forward, along with a mid-20th century extension that has an overhanging first floor at the gable end. The house has an internal stack and an external stack on the right side.
Local climate
The Gables sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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