Ashe Hall

Ashe Hall is a house that has been converted into a school. It was built in 1869 and has had later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, featuring quoins, a plinth, and continuous stringcourses at the lintel levels of the first and second floors, as well as a continuous sill stringcourse on the second floor. The roofs are covered with graduated slate and have stone-coped gables, each topped with pointed ridge finials. The side bays have eaves ball finials, and there are large brick ridge stacks with multiple Jacobean style pots. The plan is basically square, with later additions that are not of significant interest. The building has two storeys plus attics and consists of five bays in a Jacobean style.

On the south elevation, there are advanced gabled bays on either side of a central section, which features a central shaped gable. Below this gable is a two-storey, semi-circular stone bay window with plain sashes in ovolo moulded surrounds, flanked by similar single plain sashes. Each of the advanced bays has a canted bay window with similar plain sashes. Above, there are similar windows arranged in the same way, each topped by a pierced balustrade, with the central one featuring a raised section. Each gable above has a tripartite plain sash in an ovolo moulded surround, with blue brick lozenge patterns and central stone shields on either side, as well as pierced stonework roundels above the side windows.

The west elevation includes hopper heads dated 1869. The north elevation features the main entrance, which has a tetrastyle Tuscan portico. Each column and pilaster has extravagant rusticated bands near the base. Above the entrance is a pierced stone balustrade with spiked ball finials on the piers. The doorcase is moulded and semi-circular headed, with a raised keystone and tall sashes on either side. Inside, the hall has notable 19th-century plasterwork cornices, several marble fireplaces, and a substantial 18th-century style dogleg staircase with knobbed and barleysugar twisted balusters.