Three Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. House. 3 related planning applications.

Three Gables

WRENN ID
deep-soffit-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exeter
Constituency
Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1953
Type
House
Address
Three Gables, 3-5, Cathedral Yard
OS grid reference
SX 919 925
Coordinates
50.72237, -3.53172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Three Gables comprises three houses dated 1540, located in Cathedral Yard and historically believed to have housed craftsmen working for the cathedral. They consist of three timber-framed buildings, each with a four-storey, one-window façade and a gable. The third-floor windows are splayed oriels supported by brackets, featuring leaded lights. Number 3 has a modern brick ground floor and altered windows above. Number 4 incorporates a modern Tudor-style ground floor and reproduction 17th-century oriels. Number 5 displays an early to mid-19th century shop front and Georgian sash windows within its oriels. The timber framing of the top storey is visible on the side of Number 5. The roofs are slate. Some original internal features remain. The buildings form a group with the other listed buildings of Cathedral Yard and numbers 1 and 2 Deanery Place.

Local climate

Three Gables receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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