The Gables

TL 7031-7131 5/206

WETHERSFIELD SILVER STREET (north side) The Gables

GV II

House. C15 and C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, clad with C20 waney weatherboards, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing S with late C16 axial stack at E end. 2-bay crosswing to W, with early C18 stack at rear, and C20 extensions beyond. One-bay extension to E of hall, C17. Crosswing of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. Ground floor, 5 C20 casements. First floor, 4 more, of which 2 are in gabled dormers and one is in a feature gable. 2 C20 doors, one in a gabled porch. The hall has heavy studding with arched braces trenched to the inside, and a late C16 inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops supported on pegged clamps. Large wood-burning hearth. Roof of hall rebuilt in C18. The C16 main frame of the crosswing is present, with a blocked original window in the left return, but the floor and other parts have been substantially rebuilt in the C18. The extension to the right has a wood-burning hearth with rounded back, a chamfered transverse beam with joists of various types and dates, and early floor boards. The wall framing has been substantially altered in the C18. This building has passed through the stage of being converted to 3 cottages, subsequently combined. RCHM 14.

Listing NGR: TL7106031287