Gables Collection

Old Houses in the High Street - Banbury, Oxfordshire. This is The Vivers Building - a house built in 1650 for a mercer called Edward Vivers. Date: circa 1910

Brabazon House, Moreton Street, Pimlico
Brabazon House, Moreton Street (now demolished), Pimlico, London

Thomas Newcomen / Smiles
THOMAS NEWCOMEN His house in Lower Street, Dartmouth (the centre building with supported gables), pulled down in the 19th century

Venetian Pools, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Swimmers enjoying the Venetian Pools at Coral Gables, just south of Miami, Florida, USA. Date: 1952

The Five Gables, Baillie Scott
A pair of photographs showing The Five Gables, a property designed by architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, in Arts and Crafts style. The lower image provides a view of the hall. Date: early 1900s

Baillie Scott Semi Detached Houses
An architectural drawing showing the design of some semi detached houses with half timbered gables. Date: circa 1906

Falkewood Lodge
An architectural drawing showing the design of Falkewood Lodge, which has half timbered gables on various elevations. Date: circa 1906

Row Of Cottages
An architectural drawing of a row of cottages with matching half timbered gables. Date: circa 1906

Seaside House, Llanfairfechan
A photograph of a unique seaside house with large twin gables and a long sloped pitch, situated at Llanfairfechan, North Wales, designed by Welsh architect partnership, North and Padmore

Chiddingstone High Street. One of the prettiest villages in Kent, and perhaps England, Chiddingstone is a beautiful example of a Tudor one-street village

Frognal Priory
View of Frognal Priory, built in 1818 by John Thompson, a retired auctioneer. The house, on an elevated site with extensive views, had Gothic crenellations, Renaissance windows, Dutch gables

Large domestic house
A large and quite grand domestic house with leaded windows Date: early 20th century

Ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal
The gable ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England. People walk and cycle along the towpath, and the houses are reflected in the water of the canal

Blackwaterfoot, Arran, Scotland
Sea front terraced houses, Blackwaterfoot, Isle of Arran, Scotland. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Gables Hotel, Mashobra, Himachal Pradesh, India
Gables Hotel, Mashobra hill station, Shimla (Simla) district, Himachal Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1920

Government House, Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Government House, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1905

Town Hall, Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium
Town Hall (originally Cloth Hall) and Belfry, Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, dating back to the 14th century. Date: circa 1910

Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula Brussels Belgium
Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula, Brussels, Belgium. The Roman Catholic church was given Cathedral status in 1962. The image is colour tinted

Aldermens Hall, Ypres, Belgium
The Aldermens Hall, Ypres, Belgium, dating back to the 17th century. Date: circa 1910

Row of Guild Houses, Ypres, Belgium, dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Date: circa 1910

Romanesque houses, Tournai, Belgium, dating back to the 12th century. Date: circa 1910

Rombout Keldermans House, Malines (Mechelen), Belgium
Large house built for Rombout Keldermans, Malines (Mechelen), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Keldermans (1460-1531) was the city architect of Mechelen, and court architect to Charles V

Town Hall, Hoogstraeten (Hoogstraten), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Details of skylights, Furnes (Veurne), Belgium
Details of skylights, with stepped gables, Furnes (Veurne), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Town Hall, Furnes (Veurne), Belgium
Facade of the Town Hall, Furnes (Veurne), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Stoneland, Buckhurst Park, near Withyham, Sussex. the Buckhurst estate dates back to the 11th century; the building known as Stoneland dates back to the early 17th. Date: 1809

Three buildings in the Quai au Foin, Brussels, Belgium
Three buildings in the Quai au Foin, Old Brussels, Belgium, with interestingly shaped gables dating back to the 17th century

Fowler and Tamara (1926)
A portrait of Fowler and Tamara at Coral Gables, Florida - currently appearing at the Casa Lopez cabaret New York (1926) Date: 1926

Kew, Palace, Kew, Gardens, Botanical, Gardens, Royal, Dutch, House, Brick, Brickwork
Kew, Palace, Gardens, Botanical, Royal, Dutch, House, Brick, Brickwork, Gables, history, historical, 10804611

University College
The Large Quadrangle of University College, Oxford, England, founded by William of Durham in 1249. Date: founded 1249

Belgium - Anvers - Grand Place with the Maisons des Corporations Date: circa 1910s

The Isa Bey Mosque at Selcuk, Turkey
The Isa Bey Mosque at Selcuk, the present town of Ephesus, Turkey. Constructed in 1374 - one of the oldest works of architecture remaining from the Anatolian beyliks (rich, powerful gentry)

Lacock Abbey Gables
Fine Elizabethan gables of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury as an Augustinian monastery. Date: 16th century

The Netherlands - Marken. Houses with wide gables on the edge of a canal. The housewives have hung out their washing in long lines heading down to the edge of the water

Rustic woodwork in a German trench
Clear evidence of the superiority of German trench-building, an intricate structure of rustic woodwork, gables and arches interspersed with shrubbery makes life in this particular trench

Courtyard / Ightham Mote
The cobbled courtyard of the moated manor house of Ightham Mote, Kent dating from the 1340s. The chapel & half- timbered tudor gables are depicted

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