High Ashes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1995. Farmhouse.

High Ashes Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sleeping-gable-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High Ashes Farmhouse, High Ashes Lane, Ashover
OS grid reference
SK 347 660
Coordinates
53.19001, -1.48102
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Ashes Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid 18th century, which may conceal an earlier plan, and has 19th-century alterations and additions. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, featuring quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, gable and ridge ashlar stacks, and a concrete tiled roof.

The south elevation has two storeys and four bays, with an off-centre doorway. To the west are two bays and one bay to the east. The quoined doorway has a massive lintel above which a band course rises to form a hood mould. This band course connects the heads of the ground-floor windows, which were originally two-light flush-mullioned openings within flush stone frames. Currently, there are 20th-century side-hung casements with a single horizontal glazing bar. The band course also sweeps upwards at the ends of this elevation. The first floor has four two-light casement windows, with the mullions removed but still featuring flush surrounds.

The west elevation includes a 20th-century bay window and a former first-floor doorway beneath a massive lintel, which now has a two-light flush-mullioned window. There is also a small square four-pane window at the gable apex. The rear elevation features a long 19th-century offshoot and a low gabled range extending northwards at the west end.

Local climate

High Ashes Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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