The Gables

The Gables is a house built around 1892 by A Mitchell. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some tile-hanging with a deep band of fishscale tiles, and areas of pebble-dash rendering with timber-framed gables. The roof is made of plain tiles and includes brick stacks. The house has two storeys, an attic, and a partial basement, with a three-bay layout. The left bay is set back and has an arch leading to an internal porch with a door on the right. There is a small four-pane window on the left with a terracotta cornice. The first floor is tile-hung and has windows with three lights and one light under tile pentices.

The right-hand bays are gabled, with the second bay featuring two ground-floor windows, while the third bay has a canted bay window with a polygonal roof. The first floor of each bay is pebble-dashed and includes a small-pane, five-light window set beneath the timber-framed gable. The main roof is hipped at the right end and has a dormer between the right-hand bays, along with corniced stacks topped with decorative terracotta pots.

At the rear, the gabled right-hand bay is tile-hung on the first floor and has a basement with an outshut addition that is not of special interest. It features a four-light corbelled window on the first floor and a four-light window in the gable. The house has various segmental brick-arched windows, and the ground floor of the left bay includes a bracketed five-light window. Inside, contemporary features remain, including fireplaces, cornices, doors with decorative handles, and a closed-string dog-leg staircase with tripled lozenge-sectioned balusters alternating with tripled moulded balusters.