Description

SP 0937 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side)
8/97 No 75 (Gable House)
(formerly listed as
Grey Gables)
30.7.59
GV II*
House. Early C17. Limestone rubble with stone slate roof. Two storeys.
Comprises a four-bay main range with a one-bay cross-wing at the right.
The windows are rebated and chamfered with hoods. The outer bays of the
main range have windows within blocked doorways: the left-hand one with
plain reveals; the right-hand one with chamfered surround and canted head.
The two middle bays have windows of four and five lights. The first floor
windows are of three lights, within gables which each have a blind one-light
window with elliptical head under the apex. The cross-wing has a 4-light
window with king mullion on the ground floor, one of three lights on the
first floor, and one of two lights formerly lighting an attic. The present
entrance is through a C20 porch at the left (east) of the main range.
Gables coped. Chimneys to left of former doorway in fourth bay, to right
of cross-wing, and in front of ridge to right of first bay. At the rear,
in line with the blocked front door, is a similar chamfered surround with a
C17 studded door. A C17 rear wing has a C20 two-storey bay window facing
south. Interior: the ground floor rooms have chamfered spine beams. Backing
onto the former through-passage is a stone inglenook with chamfered bressummer.
The rear wing has deeply-chamfered cross and axial ceiling beams, and a moulded
stone fireplace with canted head. On the first floor the cross-wing is
divided by a timber-framed partition containing re-used timber, and the purlins
are exposed. Part of a truss at the junction with the main range is also
exposed.

Listing NGR: SP0996337512

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510211

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)