- 1 HOME
- 1 ATELIER 591
- 2 Specialist Architectural
- 3 French Property
- 4 Photography
- 5 Sediment
- 6 Miscellany
- 15 Windsor Safari Park
- 16 Historic Building Repair
- 17 Thames Footpath
- 18 Tbilisi Conservation
- 20 Holmes Place Showers
- 21 Monument to Civilisation
- 22 North Molton Church
- 23 British Architect in France
- 24 Survey Work
- 25 Materials
- 26 Architectural Input
- 31 Scarborough Gable Boards
- 32 Unknown Warrior
- 33 Stones of Bristol
- 34 Photographic Notebook
- 35 Looking Up
- 36 Adecorative Architecture
- 39 Brighton Beach
- 40 Reverse Anthropology
- 41 Tycho Brahe
- 42 Cut to the quick
- 43 Straining at Gnats
- 44 Frere Jacques
- 45 Dead Men's Music
- 46 Erasure (LFA)
- 47 Atelier 591
- 48 Monumental Sundials
- 49 Coppicing
- 50 Furniture
- 80 Unknown Warrior slideshow
- 81 Stones of Bristol slideshow
- 83 Looking Up slideshow
- 87 Contradictions
- 88 Flint
- 89 Monument to the Sun
- 95 Atelier 591 slideshow
- 96 Monumental Sundials slide-show
- 97 Coppicing slideshow
- 98 Furniture slideshow
- 99 Etcetera slideshow
- 100 St Quentin
- 103 Peter Ayley
- 104 Contact
- 105 Stanway
- 106 Torres del Rio
- 107 Blenheim
- 108 Said
- 149 LISTING
Many of the homes built during Scarborough's nineteenth century suburban expansion have roofs overhanging the gable walls.
A particular characteristic is how the gable-board edging the roof has been pierced and carved.
A study of 120 of these shows some of the variety achieved by cutting holes in a plank of wood with some subsequent chiselling.
There is no legal protection for these architectural features in spite of them being in a Conservation Area.
Their imaginative replacement with a flat expanse of rigid PVC has begun.
SCARBOROUGH GABLE BOARDS
The results of the study have been compiled into a slideshow with a narration of the article published in the Summer 2015 SPAB magazine:
