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step gable

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corbie gable, crow gable, step gable
A gable having a stepped edge.


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It has many remarkable mediaeval buildings with high step gables and colourfully decorated walls.
A historic 17th Century Borders country house has just come on to the market in a magnificent raised location above the Tweed in north Northumberland Originally a Border pele tower, where locals would gather when under attack, the property has many original features, such as thick stone walls, a crow step gable and the old entrance in the snug.
This is where the real Amsterdammers live--at least the comfortable ones--under their bell gables and step gables, in their own quiet triangle of honeyed Dutch light, so dense that you could part it like a curtain.
 
 
 
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