The Gables
THE GABLES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293671
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293671
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Polebrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 06941 87153
Details
TL0687
19/114
23/05/67
POLEBROOK
MAIN STREET
(North side)
The Gables
GV II
House. Probably early C17 origins with datestone C/RM/1698. Squared coursed
limestone with coursed ashlar facade and Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs.
L-shape plan. 2 storeys with attic. Main front is a 5-window range of wooden
cross windows with leaded lights under wood lintels. The windows to the far
right are of 3 lights. A similar window has been inserted in place of the two
windows to ground floor left. Central plank door has 4-centred arch head with
moulded stone surrounds. The strap hinges have a central secondary hinge. Oval
plaque, with date, above door. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end
stacks, with moulded cornices. Left gable has single-light staircase window with
ovolo-moulded surround. Rear elevation has irregularly spaced leaded cross
windows. Rear wing is probably early C17 with leaded casements under wood
lintels. Single-storey bay to far right of this range has a C17 doorway with
4-centred arch head and chamfered stone surround. Interior: open fireplaces with
bressumers in hall, kitchen to left of hall and room at end of rear wing.
Chamfered spine beams and exposed stud wall in hall. Winder stair, to attic,
alongside kitchen fireplace has plank door with wooden latch. Space between hall
and kitchen way have housed original main stair. Attic has plaster floor. Some
original roof structure. Said to have been built for Roger and Mary Clapham.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p135)
Listing NGR: TL0694187153
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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