Gable House is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1962. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Gable House
- WRENN ID
- deep-pedestal-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gable House, Newbury Road, Great Shefford, RG17 7DT
- OS grid reference
- SU 383 751
- Coordinates
- 51.47437, -1.44951
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable House is a cottage dating from the 16th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame with painted brick infill on the right side and painted brick on the left. The roof is made of old tiles and the building is arranged in an L shape with a large chimney at the junction. It stands two storeys tall. On the left side, there is one cambered headed casement window on the ground floor and one casement window on the first floor. The right side has a gabled and jettied timber frame with an angled bay under the jetty on the ground floor and one casement window to the left of centre on the first floor. The structure displays plain square framing, queen post trusses, and curved braces to the main posts.
Local climate
Gable House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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