The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1992. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- small-oriel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1992
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Gables, Reading Road, Cholsey, OX10 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SU 592 851
- Coordinates
- 51.56243, -1.14691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a former station hotel and tavern built around 1841, likely designed by I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway. It features painted red brick with stone dressings and has slated roofs with two steeply pitched gables on each facade, complete with projecting eaves and bargeboards. Tall brick chimney stacks rise from the ground floor through the gables. The building has a square plan with two bays on each facade and stands two storeys high with an attic.
The main facade is symmetrical, showcasing a Tudor-arched entrance flanked by transom and mullion windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a narrow vertically set window above the entrance. Similar narrow windows are present in the attic. The other facades maintain a similar style, featuring half-glazed doors with intersecting tracery in Tudor-arched doorways. The platform elevation shows remnants of a canopy and is flanked by two canted bay windows.
Inside, the building retains a staircase with turned newels and original panelled doors. This structure is an early example of a station hotel, with the platform, which only had a simple shelter, accessed via a sloping drive. Originally named Wallingford Road, it was renamed Moulsford station in 1866 following the opening of the Wallingford Branch Line.
Local climate
The Gables sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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