The Gables

The Gables is a large house, now divided into two dwellings, dating to around 1620 with a later 17th-century stair wing. It was altered and extended around 1900. The house is timber-framed, with cement rendering, and some 19th-century red brick to the rear. It has steeply pitched tiled roofs with some slates. The original design was a broad three-cell lobby entry plan.

The original entrance, positioned between the centre and right bays, is now located within a closed, gabled porch added around 1900, featuring a four-panelled door, a fanlight, architrave, and brackets. Flanking this porch are full-height, shallow canted bay windows with mullion and transom lights (a 1:5:1 configuration) and small pane casements. To the left is a carriageway entrance with double doors. The segmental arched head is low and moulded. The left bay is now number 59 and incorporates a bay window which is, in fact, a later oriel inserted around 1900 when a new entrance was created on the far left, featuring a part-glazed door and bracketed hood. Above each bay are jettied gables with brattished and moulded bressumers supported by carved scrolled brackets incorporating hearts. A cross-axial ridge stack with three octagonal shafts is found behind the original entrance. A truncated stack has been added at the left end of the rear, shallower slated slope. A later 17th-century lean-to stair wing extends from behind the central ‘hall’ bay. A rear right wing, originally two storeys and with an attic, was shortened and refaced in red brick with a plat band and end stack around 1900. A two-storey lean-to stands to the rear left, featuring three-light casements and a stack. This adjoins a weatherboarded and cement-rendered former barn.

The interior features ovolo moulded bearers throughout. Bolection moulded panelling is present in the 'hall' and an upper room. A mid to late 17th-century open-well staircase has barleysugar balusters on squat vase-shaped bases, square newel posts, and a moulded broad handrail. Fielded panelled doors and an ovolo moulded door surround lead into the stair wing. Notable features include a four-centred chamfered brick arched fireplace, stop chamfered jowled posts, and ovolo moulded door surrounds. The building formerly served as the Town House and an Inn.