High Gables is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. House, farmhouse.
High Gables
- WRENN ID
- steep-cupola-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- High Gables, High Street, Hopton
- OS grid reference
- TL 993 790
- Coordinates
- 52.37317, 0.92709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Gables is a former farmhouse dated 'JB' over 1804, located on Hopton High Street. The building is two storeys tall, featuring red brick on the front and sides, with knapped flint at the rear. It has a thatched roof adorned with a decorated ridge and a wooden modillion cornice. The gables are tumbled with high, plain copings that incorporate chimney-stacks. The facade includes a range of three late 19th-century sash windows, each with a single vertical bar in the lights. The central entrance features an Edwardian four-panelled door, which has ornamental coloured glazing in the upper lights. This door is set within an older surround that includes an eared architrave, a triangular pediment with dentils, and a frieze of carved 15th-century cresting, likely taken from the church during a 19th-century restoration. Inside, there is an original curved staircase with plain balusters and a sinuous handrail.
Local climate
High 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% 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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