Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 May 1988. A Medieval House.

Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of White Horse
Constituency
Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 May 1988
Type
House
Period
Medieval
Address
Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage, Wellshead Lane, Harwell, OX11 0HD
OS grid reference
SU 491 888
Coordinates
51.59656, -1.29155
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage is a house that has been divided into two dwellings. The rear section dates back to around 1295, while the front section was built in the late 17th century, with later alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a mix of materials, including render on timber-framing, areas of stone rubble, and painted brick, topped with an old plain-tile roof. There is a brick ridge stack at the center and an end stack to the left. The rear is finished in painted brick and has a hipped old plain-tile roof on the left side.

The structure is two stories high with a two-window range. There is a sash door located to the left of center, and the windows are mainly 19th-century casements with irregular placement. Inside Tibbleton Cottage, there is one cruck truss with a tie beam and two collars, the lower of which is arch-braced, along with the remains of another cruck truss. These trusses have been radio-carbon dated to have a probable felling date of 1275, making this the earliest identified timber-framed true cruck house in England.

Local climate

Gable Cottage and Tibbleton Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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