The Gables

TL0687 19/114 23/05/67

POLEBROOK MAIN STREET (North side) The Gables

GV II

House. Probably early C17 origins with datestone C/RM/1698. Squared coursed limestone with coursed ashlar facade and Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs. L-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range of wooden cross windows with leaded lights under wood lintels. The windows to the far right are of 3 lights. A similar window has been inserted in place of the two windows to ground floor left. Central plank door has 4-centred arch head with moulded stone surrounds. The strap hinges have a central secondary hinge. Oval plaque, with date, above door. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks, with moulded cornices. Left gable has single-light staircase window with ovolo-moulded surround. Rear elevation has irregularly spaced leaded cross windows. Rear wing is probably early C17 with leaded casements under wood lintels. Single-storey bay to far right of this range has a C17 doorway with 4-centred arch head and chamfered stone surround. Interior: open fireplaces with bressumers in hall, kitchen to left of hall and room at end of rear wing. Chamfered spine beams and exposed stud wall in hall. Winder stair, to attic, alongside kitchen fireplace has plank door with wooden latch. Space between hall and kitchen way have housed original main stair. Attic has plaster floor. Some original roof structure. Said to have been built for Roger and Mary Clapham. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p135)

Listing NGR: TL0694187153