The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Gables

WRENN ID
calm-cobble-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 April 1988
Type
House
Address
The Gables, Rattlesden Road, Drinkstone, IP30 9TL
OS grid reference
TL 959 600
Coordinates
52.20382, 0.86662
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gables is a house located on Drinkstone Green, dating from the early 17th century or earlier. It is a single-storey building with attics and has a two-cell lobby-entrance plan, along with a single-cell wing of a similar age. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring 20th-century pargetting in large panels. It has a thatched roof with an axial chimney made of late 16th century or early 17th century red brick. The windows are 20th-century small-pane casements, and there is a panelled 20th-century entrance door located in a lean-to porch at the re-entrant angle.

Local climate

The Gables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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