The Gables, Including Piers, Walls And Railings

The Gables is a villa built in 1882, designed by A. Cresswell. It features yellow stock bricks with stone dressings and quoins, and has steeply pitched slate roofs adorned with cresting and ornamental bargeboards. The building is double-fronted and consists of two storeys plus an attic over a basement, arranged in a 3:1:3 bay configuration. The outer bays are canted and rise beneath steeply pitched gable ends. The sash windows do not have glazing bars, and there is a central gabled dormer with bargeboards. The gable ends have windows with sidelights, and the canted bays feature a moulded cornice. The first-floor windows have flat lintels with keystones, while the ground-floor windows are segmental-headed with keystones.

There is a flat-roofed porch with a bottle balustrade parapet and a round-arched head opening that has decorative spandrels. Shaped brackets above ornamented capitals support the piers. The entrance includes a half-glazed door with an ornamental grill and sidelights, accessed by a short flight of steps. The property is bordered by brick walls with piers, which are returned with cast-iron railings along the street frontage. This villa is noted for its unusual, if not unique, design for the area and has survived unaltered.