Gable Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. Cottage.
Gable Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-floor-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gable Cottage, the Green, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 734
- Coordinates
- 51.46028, -2.19597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gable Cottage is a cottage dated 1723, which has been altered in the early to mid-20th century. It is built of rubble stone and features a stone tiled roof, with stacks at the ridge and north end wall. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has a two-room plan. The original ground floor includes bead-moulded windows, consisting of one two-light and one three-light window under a continuous drip course, along with a central doorcase dated 1723 that has a hood supported by brackets. The upper floor, which was originally designed with two two-light windows under a thatched roof, has been replaced by an asymmetrical arrangement of three 20th-century dormer gables, featuring two-light, single light, and two-light windows. The windows have leaded light casements. The cottage is associated with the village Reading Room from the late 19th century and is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Gable Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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