Gable House

SP 0937 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side) 8/97 No 75 (Gable House) (formerly listed as Grey Gables) 30.7.59 GV II* House. Early C17. Limestone rubble with stone slate roof. Two storeys. Comprises a four-bay main range with a one-bay cross-wing at the right. The windows are rebated and chamfered with hoods. The outer bays of the main range have windows within blocked doorways: the left-hand one with plain reveals; the right-hand one with chamfered surround and canted head. The two middle bays have windows of four and five lights. The first floor windows are of three lights, within gables which each have a blind one-light window with elliptical head under the apex. The cross-wing has a 4-light window with king mullion on the ground floor, one of three lights on the first floor, and one of two lights formerly lighting an attic. The present entrance is through a C20 porch at the left (east) of the main range. Gables coped. Chimneys to left of former doorway in fourth bay, to right of cross-wing, and in front of ridge to right of first bay. At the rear, in line with the blocked front door, is a similar chamfered surround with a C17 studded door. A C17 rear wing has a C20 two-storey bay window facing south. Interior: the ground floor rooms have chamfered spine beams. Backing onto the former through-passage is a stone inglenook with chamfered bressummer. The rear wing has deeply-chamfered cross and axial ceiling beams, and a moulded stone fireplace with canted head. On the first floor the cross-wing is divided by a timber-framed partition containing re-used timber, and the purlins are exposed. Part of a truss at the junction with the main range is also exposed.

Listing NGR: SP0996337512