The Gables

The Gables is a two-storey house built in the Arts and Crafts style, featuring brick with terracotta and painted brick dressings, and a hipped slate roof with axial and end wall stacks. The entrance front has a three-window range, with a central entrance in a segmental arch, surrounded by a wide drop-ended hood mould. The frieze and spandrels display richly moulded terracotta work. The entrance door is made up of many panels, with glazed upper sections.

Above and to the right of the entrance is a large six-light mullioned and transomed stair window, which has decorative leading and coloured glass lights. To the right, there is a full-height canted bay window with a steep roof that forms part of the main roof. This bay features mullioned windows set in moulded architraves with shallow ogee arched heads leading to the lights. To the left of the doorway, there are similar three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with segmentally arched upper lights. Above the upper window, there is a timber gabled dormer with a moulded brick jettied cornice and ornamental timberwork in the panelling above. A small hipped dormer is located in the centre of the roof.

The return elevation to the right (south) is similarly detailed, with three and four-light mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor that open onto a verandah. Above, there are three-light windows beneath gabled dormers, similar to those on the front elevation. The verandah, originally open, has been glazed in on the front elevation, with cusped decoration on the struts that brace the chamfered uprights.

Much of the original layout and detailing of the house has been preserved. The entrance leads to a small lobby with a tiled floor and a glazed inner doorway. The large entrance hall features a fireplace with enamelled decorative tiles set in a panelled surround, complete with a bracketed mantle and trefoiled panels in the overmantle. A heavy cornice forms a plate rail above, with a similar cornice over paired doorways in the side walls, which have deep moulded architraves. Some original reeded panelled doors remain. An open-well stair leads to a galleried upper landing, featuring turned balusters and heavy newels, along with some dado panelling.