Ashling and Ashling Cottage

Ashling and Ashling Cottage are a late 18th-century rectory, now two private houses, with remnants of a 17th-century and potentially earlier structure at the rear. The main fabric is of coursed squared gritstone and rubble, with some herring-bone tooling, ashlar details, and a stone slate roof.

The southern-facing main range, now Ashling, is two storeys high with five bays. The central three bays project forward with a moulded pediment. It includes a plinth and quoins. A mid-19th-century stone porch with pilasters and entablature is centrally positioned. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, a ground-floor sill band, and plain lintels. There are ashlar stacks to the rear of the ridge and at each end of the hipped roof. The left return shows turned quoins indicating two phases of building: a sixteen-pane sash window and a nine-pane sash window. The rear wing on the left, now Ashling Cottage, has a plain surround to the entrance on the right and a rear facade featuring a chamfered doorway with a replaced lintel and an altered plank door on the left. The reset original lintel to the right displays a flattened ogee arch, carved spandrels, and the inscription "1652 WC." The right return has a mid-18th-century bay window on the right, with small-pane sashes that have been replaced.

The interior has not been inspected.

William Clarkson is believed to have altered a timber-framed house in 1652. A bay window was added on the east side around 1740 by the Rector William Jackson. Between 1766 and 1770, Sandford Hardcastle added a new front range, a stair-hall, an Adam-style fireplace, and a corridor connecting to the old range. Work continued until around 1819 for the Revd George Lewthwaite, which included raising the roof and adding service buildings, including a kitchen with metal-lined shutters. It is likely that around this time alterations were made to the 17th-century doorway and the original lintel was reset. In 1858, Henry Trail Simpson remodelled the building, including reroofing and adding the porch. Between 1946 and 1947, the rear wing was converted into a separate cottage, and the church sold the property in 1975.