The Gables, Elswick

Tudor-Gothic mansion, later known as Hopedean House. Typical of the gentlemen's residences being built in mid C19 in the "west end" of Newcastle. The Gables stood on the corner of Gloucester Road and Elswick Road. It was built by the Richardsons, a Quaker family who owned the nearby Elswick Leather Works in Water Street, and occupied by David Richardson.In the 1920s it was a private nursing home, later a Salvation Army hostel. Demolished in 1996.