In 1905 Joseph Knight, shoe manufacturer, built this fine new villa residence in Irchester Road, and called it 'Rosemount'. The house was later renamed "The Gables" when Dr Reading and family resided there. In the 1990s it was the home Don Gibson, of Townsend's Garages Ltd.

The present owner is keen to preserve the old features of the house, and kindly invited us to photograph them. (The land had been sold off before he purchased the house, but it is thought many of the original fruit trees are still thriving, if rather overgrown.)