The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ashlar-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, High Street, Norton St. Philip, BA2 7LG
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 558
- Coordinates
- 51.30115, -2.32459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gables is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of coursed rubble Doulting stone and features a gabled roof covered with double Roman clay tiles. The building has two unequal front gables with plain verges and a brick chimney stack. It is two storeys high with an attic in the larger front gable.
The front of the house has three windows, with the entrance located between the first and second windows. The entrance features a square-headed, moulded stone door surround and a framed, studded door. The ground floor includes two-light wood mullioned casement windows and a fixed light window, with a partly blocked entrance also having fixed light infill, all under wooden lintels.
On the first floor, there are two two-light and one three-light moulded stone mullioned casement windows, which are 19th century, and they have a common drip mould above the second and third windows. The attic features a stone-framed, two-pane casement window with a stopped drip mould.
Local climate
The Gables receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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