The Gables

The Gables is a house built around 1880 by John Birch for the Sledmere Estate. It features pink-orange brick in Flemish bond, set on a moulded brick plinth, with orange gauged-brick quoins and dressings, and a tiled roof. The building is located on a corner site and has a two-storey, five-bay front. The left end, center, and right-of-center bays project, with the left end bay angled at the street corner.

The ground floor of the right-of-center bay serves as a porch, featuring a shallow Tudor-arched opening and a recessed half-glazed front door. To the right, there is a four-light casement window with square leaded glazing beneath a cambered gauged brick arch. The center bay has a five-light canted bay window with square leaded glazing and a half-hexagonal pent roof. The next left bay contains a two-light window beneath a segmental arch with a corniced keystone, and above it is an uncarved terracotta panel set in a moulded surround. In the corner bay, there is a cross window beneath a shallow Tudor arch.

On the first floor, the corner and right-of-center bays are jettied and feature two-light casements with square leaded glazing beneath cambered gauged brick arches. The right end and center bays have similar two- and three-light windows, all recessed in moulded brick surrounds with moulded terracotta sills. All bays, except the center left one, are gabled with barge boards and terracotta finials. The roof has a low stack at the right end and a panelled ridge stack towards the left end, with the left end being hipped.

The left return has a two-storey, one-window gabled bay with a one-storey, four-window service wing to the left. The ground floor of the two-storey bay has a three-light window beneath a segmental arch with a corniced keystone, and there is a two-light window on the first floor. The service wing features three similar windows and one 20th-century top-opening light in an altered opening. It has a central ridge stack that is panelled and corniced, with a finial at the left end. The right return includes an external stack with tumbled brick offsets. The house was originally built as the Estate Office and Manager's House.