Ashton House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Ashton House
- WRENN ID
- steep-landing-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ashton House, Slyne Road, Slyne-With-Hest, LA2 6AZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 477 658
- Coordinates
- 54.08572, -2.80029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton House is a farmhouse dating from 1723, as indicated by the inscription on the lintel. It is constructed of slobbered rubble and features a slate roof. The building has a two-unit central entry plan with gable stacks and stands two storeys tall.
The front of the house includes a three-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window to the left of the front door, and a three-light chamfered window to the right, along with a one-light blocked chamfered fire window beyond. On the first floor, there is a three-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window on the left and another three-light chamfered mullioned window on the right. The doorway is adorned with cyma moulding.
On the left-hand return wall, there is a one-light chamfered window. At the rear, the ground floor features a rebated and chamfered surround, while the stair window has a chamfered surround and there is a three-light chamfered mullioned window on the first floor.
Local climate
Ashton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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