Ashton Hall Farmhouse

Ashton Hall Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse with a later 17th-century cottage addition and a top storey remodelled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of tooled dressed red and buff sandstone blocks with a concrete tile roof and brick gable chimneys. The main house is a large rectangular building with a cross passage and has a three-storey, five-bay east front. The facade includes a plinth, a cyma-moulded band at the first floor, and a stepped cornice. The first and fourth bays feature moulded stone doorcases, with the first bay blocked. Most windows are three-light, rebated and chamfered mullioned and transomed, although the top storey has three-light wooden casements. To the right is a two-storey and attic, two-bay cottage with a cyma-moulded band at the second floor, a modern door, and four-light chamfered stone mullioned windows. The left end of the cottage has bands at both floors and ovolo-moulded windows. The two-storey west front mirrors the elements of the east front. The interior, which has not been inspected, is recorded in the provisional list as containing a wide fireplace opening on the ground floor. A particularly unusual Jacobean staircase rises the full height of the house, featuring a close string enriched with carved strap ornament, shaped balusters, a moulded rail, some newels running up, and others with foliate ovoid finials. A southeast room on the first floor contains pegged oak panelling on three sides. The farmhouse has two and four-panelled doors with unusual hinges. A loose and worn inscribed stone against the house reads RICHARD LATCHFORD 1711 ..TD and may be related to the building.