The Gables is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 March 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Gables
- WRENN ID
- spare-rubblework-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Gables, Norton, Presteigne, LD8 2EL
- OS grid reference
- SO 303 670
- Coordinates
- 52.29698, -3.02222
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gables is a large three-storey, four-bay house built around 1860, originally serving as the lower house to Norton Manor and designed in a similar Jacobethan style. The building features rubble facings with freestone dressings and steep slate roofs adorned with bargeboards. It has chimney stacks with tall, star-shaped brick stems, and the outer bays are slightly advanced. Notable architectural details include rectangular dripmoulds, small paired casements on the top floor, and cruciform frames with small pane glazing on the lower floors. To the left end, there is a small bay, and to the left of centre, a solid porch with a triangular-headed doorway and a pitched roof.
Local climate
The Gables receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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