The Gables

The Gables is a late 16th-century farmhouse located on Hilton Road. It has an H-plan layout with two cross-wings and features a rough-cast timber frame and plain tile roofs, some of which have early crested ridge tiles. The building is two stories high and has a continuous jetty that is boxed and returns to the side of the left-hand cross-wing, which includes a dragon beam. There is a 19th-century porch at the angle of the right-hand cross-wing and a canted bay window to the left, featuring hung sash windows with glazing bars. Both floor levels of the left-hand cross-wing have two hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the main range has a set of three similar first-floor windows. The main ridge stack on the left side has been rebuilt using local red brick and features engaged diagonal shafts. The right-hand cross-wing has its own ridge stack, and there is an external end stack at the rear of the left-hand cross-wing made of soft red brick, which includes a moulded brick band and two shafts with a common entablature.