The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1971. House.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- stranded-nave-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, 61, Bath Street, Abingdon on Thames
- OS grid reference
- SU 495 973
- Coordinates
- 51.67297, -1.28494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a building with origins dating back to the 16th century. It is constructed from stone and timber, featuring a combination of painted and rough rendered surfaces. The building stands two storeys high with attics and has a modern asbestos tile roof.
The front of the building has three gables facing the road, each adorned with a two-light casement window that includes glazing bars set in a flush frame, along with a moulded cornice. There is a boxed roof cornice above. On the first floor, there are three windows with plain architraves, which are double-hung sashes also featuring glazing bars. The ground floor has two additional windows. The building has a plinth and three steps leading up to a pilastered doorcase, which has paterae beneath a plain hood. The entrance features a six-panel door with a glazed fanlight above. To the right, there is a garden door that is part-glazed, set within a plain architrave and topped with a small hood supported on consoles.
The Gables is part of a group that includes Nos 47 to 61 (odd).
Local climate
The Gables 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 78% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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