The Gables

The Gables is a large detached house, likely dating from the early 20th century, situated on a raised platform overlooking a valley. The house is approached from the rear and has a garden sloping away in front. It is characterised by an unusually heavy roughcast render, with decorative tiling, pegged half-timbering, patterned brickwork, and a tiled roof with overhanging swept sprocketed eaves, incorporating cement or concrete kneelers and coping. The rendered stacks have brick bands and some original cowled pots. The windows were originally leaded, quarried casements with tiled sills; some have been replaced with windows lacking leading.

The front garden frontage presents two gables. The left-hand gable projects forward, with the gable apex supported by brackets and decorated with wany-edged timbering. This overhangs a two-storey canted bay with herringbone brickwork panels edged by timbers. The bay has five lights to each floor, with a similar flanking light on each side at the first floor level. To the right, the gable is tile-hung, featuring a four-light first-floor window. Below is the main doorway, with a Tudor-arched, part-glazed door and bell. Windows flank the stack to the right, and a three-light window marks the living room end. The right side elevation has a flat-roofed canted bay to the ground floor, accentuated by chunky battered buttresses at the corners reaching to the moulded string course delineating the storeys. To the left of the front elevation, a wall encloses a small kitchen yard with a Gothic arched gateway. The rear elevation showcases a gable with swept eaves, two four-light windows with segmental-arched heads, and a five-light window to the ground floor. The eaves have a boarded soffit swept over two windows, with a five-light kitchen window below. Adjacent and attached is a hipped-roofed outhouse with overhanging sprocketed eaves and a chimney, featuring boarded doors; this served as a laundry and potentially as servant accommodation.

The front door, accessed from the garden frontage, leads to an asymmetrical hall, featuring double vertically panelled doors with decorative glazed upper panels and a staircase with splat balusters. Numerous original features remain despite some alterations, including dark stained exposed ceiling joists, a bracketed plate rack, a dado rail, wired lights, and bells. The front living room formerly had a blue and white tiled grate. The dining room and living room contain original round-arched brick fireplaces with deep decorative voussoirs; the dining room also has original Arts and Crafts style cupboards on either side. The side living room incorporates a deep inglenook fireplace with settles, small windows offering garden views, cupboards, a bookshelf, and a pipe-rack. The kitchen includes a scullery, formerly with slabs, retaining hooks, and a pantry.