Ashes Farmhouse

Ashes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions made in 1704, as indicated by the initials "RH" on the door lintel. The building features sandstone rubble walls, with the right section having a clay core, and ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles and has rendered and yellow brick chimneys.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, consisting of a three-bay main block and a lower two-bay kitchen wing on the right. The main entrance is a renewed door located at the center of the higher part, while a battened plank door is found to the left of the lower part, set in a stone surround with a Tudor-arched lintel and an eroded chamfer. The higher part has flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills for the sash windows, which feature vertical glazing bars. The lower part has a similar treatment for a renewed ground-floor cross window and a first-floor sash, along with another first-floor sash that lacks a sill. Blocked windows of 17th-century proportions can still be seen in the outer bays of the first floor in the higher section. The steeply-pitched roof has a shaped left return gable with a large rendered external chimney stack, as well as brick chimneys. The right side of the roof has a lower pitch and features a tall tapered square rendered stack with a string course near the top.

At the rear, there is a one-storey, two-bay outshut behind the third bay of the house and the first bay of the wing, which includes stone-mullioned two-light chamfered windows, with the lower window having vertical diagonal iron bars.

Inside, there is a long draw-bar slot in the right door surround and a three-panel door at the opposite end of the passage leading to the outshut. The right room contains a bolection-moulded stone chimney-piece. The room to the left of the passage has a chimney beam with a simple classical design featuring closely-spaced dentils supporting a cornice over a pulvinated frieze on fluted pilasters, along with a stop-chamfered beam and underdrawn joists. The left roof is reported to have a two-stone arch of flat Tudor shape beneath the current wall covering.