The Gables

The Gables is a house dated 1715, with an early 19th-century addition and later alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with stone slate roofs and coped verges. The original three-bay house was extended to the left in the early 19th century. It is two storeys and has an attic. The front has three windows; horned glazing bar sashes are present on the first floor and to the centre on the ground floor. A late 19th or early 20th-century bay window with two glazing bar sashes is located on the lower right, and two glazing bar sashes are separated by a chamfered mullion to the lower left. An entrance is on the far left, featuring a gabled porch over a six-panel door, with the top left panel now glazed. There are three gabled dormers in the roof. Integral ashlar end stacks have moulded dripstones and capping. A datestone, "B/RS/1715", is set into the right gable end, and a gabled staircase projection is visible at the rear. A long 19th-century addition extends to the left. Inside, the ground and first floor rooms feature stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and plank doors. An oak winder staircase in the gabled projection leads to the attic, while a stone winder staircase in the same projection descends to a twin barrel-vaulted cellar, lit by two two-light mullion windows at the front. The roof is a collar and tie beam structure in five bays with double butt-purlins, while the 19th century addition has a king-post roof.