The Gables

KIRBY GRINDALYTHE KIRBY LANE SE 96 NW (east side) 13/22 The Gables - II House. c1880. By John Birch, for the Sledmere Estate. Pink-orange brick in Flemish bond, on moulded brick plinth; orange gauged-brick quoins and dressings; tile roof. Corner site. 2-storey, 5-bay front; left end, centre and right-of-centre bays project, and left end bay canted on street corner. Ground floor of right-of-centre bay forms porch with shallow Tudor-arched opening and recessed half-glazed front door. Bay to right has 4-light casement window with square leaded glazing beneath cambered gauged brick arch. Centre bay has 5-light canted bay window with square leaded glazing and half-hexagonal pent roof. Next left bay has 2-light window beneath segmental arch with corniced keystone: uncarved terracotta panel sunk in moulded surround above. Cross window beneath shallow Tudor arch in corner bay. First floors of corner and right-of-centre bays are jettied and contain 2-light casements with square leaded glazing beneath cambered gauged brick arches. Right end and centre bay have similar 2- and 3-light windows respectively. Windows are all recessed in moulded brick surrounds with moulded terracotta sills. All bays except the centre left one are gabled with barge boards and terracotta finials. Low stack at right end and panelled ridge stack towards left end, both corniced. Roof hipped at left end. Left return: 2-storey, 1-window gabled bay with 1-storey, 4-window service wing at left. 3-light ground-floor window beneath segmental arch with corniced keystone in 2-storey bay, with 2-light first-floor window. Service wing has 3 similar windows and one C20 top-opening light in altered opening. Central ridge stack, panelled and corniced. Finial at left end. Right return: external stack with tumbled brick offsets. House built originally as Estate Office and Manager's House.

Listing NGR: SE9054967542