The house stood a considerable distance back from the road: it was a gabled building of large size, and not without interest.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Outside, it was the most picturesque and doubtless the oldest house in the village; many-gabled, with very tall ancient chimneys, the roofs of red tiles mottled grey and yellow with age and lichen.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Difficult as it must always be to find an image which shall supply a stranger with any clear idea of a mass so irregular and unsymmetrical as this, yet its general appearance and the arrangement of its parts may be roughly apprehended in the following manner:-Imagine a large two-gabled church planted on the side of a steep hill.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith