Amber House, Including Attached Outbuildings Front Boundary Wall And Gateposts

Amber House is a 17th-century house with 19th-century remodelling and 20th-century alterations, located on Church Street, Ashover. It is constructed of regularly coursed squared gritstone and coursed rubble gritstone with ashlar dressings. The house has plain eaves, ashlar gable stacks, and is roofed with Welsh slates and stone slates. The west elevation is three stories and three bays, featuring a central doorway with a plain ashlar surround and a massive lintel. A 20th-century four-panel door sits beneath a rectangular overlight. Canted bay windows with lead roofs and single glazing-bar sashes flank the doorway, with the southern bay being a 20th-century replacement. First and second floor windows are single glazing-bar vertical sashes within flush surrounds beneath deep lintels. A single-bay range to the rear has two first-floor single-light openings to the gable, retaining 17th-century surrounds. Attached to the front is a boundary wall of ashlar gritstone with square gateposts topped with pyramidal caps. The building is listed for its group value.