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
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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- 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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