Ashgate House

SK37SW 1264-0/2/84

BRAMPTON Ashgate House

II

Hospice, formerly house. Mid-to-late C18, with C19 additions and alterations, altered to a hospital, and then to a hospice in 1988. Rendered rubble, and brick with ashlar dressings, flush and advanced quoins, and boldly projecting eaves cornice. Coped gables with moulded kneelers, brick gable stacks, and stone slated and Welsh-slated roofs. 3-storey main range with a single-storey parallel range addition to the east end. South elevation of main range of 3 storeys and 2 bays, with coupled tall sash windows without glazing bars to ground floor within moulded stone surrounds. First floor with 2 Venetian windows, second floor with Diocletian windows. All with C20 joinery. West gable with altered windows, but with one surviving 2-light flush mullioned window. Single-storey range with 2 tall sash windows without glazing bars in plain surrounds. East elevation with twin gable ends, each with a tall coupled chimney stack with moulded stone cap. Each gable has a tall semicircular headed window opening, that to the south altered. Central flat-roofed ashlar porch with semicircular headed windows and doorway.

Listing NGR: SK3480671581