Ash House is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. House.
Ash House
- WRENN ID
- third-frieze-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ash House, Ball Lane, Caton-With-Littledale
- OS grid reference
- SD 531 649
- Coordinates
- 54.07793, -2.71694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ash House is a house built in 1683, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed from slobbered rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three bays. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have plain stone surrounds. The central bay contains a door with moulded jambs, which have been cut back, and a shaped lintel that displays the date '1683' along with defaced initials. There are traces of blocked mullioned windows visible in the stonework, and the left-hand gable has coping. The house has end chimneys, with the left-hand chimney featuring a cap with weathered offsets and the right-hand chimney having a round cap.
At the rear, there is a wing that has chamfered window surrounds of 18th-century style on its west wall. Inside, the right-hand room is adorned with pine panelling that includes raised and fielded panels along with fluted pilasters. The left-hand room features two exposed chamfered main ceiling joists, one with pyramid stops and another that may have once supported a firehood bressumer. The rear wing contains an oak dog-leg staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, and a ramped handrail. In the rear room, there is a moulded shouldered fireplace.
Local climate
Ash House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
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