The Gables

This is a house, likely originating in the 17th century with early 18th-century alterations. It is constructed from roughly-shaped ironstone rubble, with a thatched roof. The building has a cruck frame, a traditional timber construction method. The main part of the house consists of three sections, with a gabled wing attached to the left. The gabled wing is rendered with a steeper roof slope on its inner side, and has coped gables (where the roof edges have been neatly finished) and two-light casement windows on both the ground and upper floors. A chimney sits on the gable apex of this wing. The right-hand bay of the main range is likely a later addition, with a lower roofline. It contains one ground-floor window, a six-light sash window with console brackets supporting a fascia board. The central section of the house features a central doorway flanked by two-light casement windows with chamfered timber lintels. There are two upper two-light casement windows. Chimneys are located to the left of the doorway and where the central section joins the right-hand bay, marking the former end gable. The right-hand gable is built of 18th-century brickwork with blue headers (where blue bricks are used as the horizontal layer). Inside, the house has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops (a decorative detail on the ends of the beams) and a pair of crucks.