The Gables

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET 652-1/10/50 (East side) 06/02/52 No.105 The Gables

GV II

House. C15 with C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-frame with plastered infill, left half refronted in brick with blue brick dressings; old tile roofs with brick stacks. Complex plan including L-plan front range with gabled cross-wing to right with jettied upper floor. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-storey re-entrant gabled porch has entrance with chamfered reveals and pointed-arched panelled door with cusped glazed spandrels; narrow light above has chamfered reveals; blue lozenge to gable and gable to left. Wing has narrow bay window with 1:4:1-light transomed glazing with iron opening casement. First floor has canted oriel with hipped roof over 1:3:1-light leaded glazing; returns have single lights with cusped ogee arches and traceried spandrels. Close-studded framing with tension braces to ground floor and first floor on double jetty: moulded bressumer on joist ends with coving above. Gabled bay to left has altered ground-floor and first-floor window with projecting 3-light casement; return has square framing to first floor. Right return has stone external stack with brick shaft. INTERIOR: not inspected, but recorded as having fireplace with chamfered lintel; C16 ceiling. Building traditionally associated with a hospital for travellers and the poor, founded 1448. (Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12; Cooper W: Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town: Birmingham: 1946-: 107).

Listing NGR: SP1514766169