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The Gables

A Grade II Listed Building in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.2934 / 52°17'36"N

Longitude: -1.7793 / 1°46'45"W

OS Eastings: 415147

OS Northings: 266169

OS Grid: SP151661

Mapcode National: GBR 4KK.0ZP

Mapcode Global: VH9ZY.3MP6

Plus Code: 9C4W76VC+97

Entry Name: The Gables

Listing Date: 6 February 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1382313

English Heritage Legacy ID: 482680

ID on this website: 101382313

Location: Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, B95

County: Warwickshire

District: Stratford-on-Avon

Civil Parish: Henley-in-Arden

Built-Up Area: Henley-In-Arden

Traditional County: Warwickshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire

Church of England Parish: Beaudesert St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: Coventry

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Description



HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1566 HIGH STREET
652-1/10/50 (East side)
06/02/52 No.105
The Gables

GV II

House. C15 with C17 and C19 alterations and additions.
Timber-frame with plastered infill, left half refronted in
brick with blue brick dressings; old tile roofs with brick
stacks. Complex plan including L-plan front range with gabled
cross-wing to right with jettied upper floor.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-storey re-entrant gabled porch has
entrance with chamfered reveals and pointed-arched panelled
door with cusped glazed spandrels; narrow light above has
chamfered reveals; blue lozenge to gable and gable to left.
Wing has narrow bay window with 1:4:1-light transomed glazing
with iron opening casement. First floor has canted oriel with
hipped roof over 1:3:1-light leaded glazing; returns have
single lights with cusped ogee arches and traceried spandrels.
Close-studded framing with tension braces to ground floor and
first floor on double jetty: moulded bressumer on joist ends
with coving above.
Gabled bay to left has altered ground-floor and first-floor
window with projecting 3-light casement; return has square
framing to first floor.
Right return has stone external stack with brick shaft.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but recorded as having fireplace with
chamfered lintel; C16 ceiling.
Building traditionally associated with a hospital for
travellers and the poor, founded 1448.
(Victoria County History: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 206-12; Cooper W:
Henley-in-Arden: An Ancient Market Town: Birmingham: 1946-:
107).


Listing NGR: SP1514766169

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