Ash House Farmhouse

Ash House Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse with alterations from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof. The building stands three storeys tall with an attic.

The south-west (garden) front features a brick plinth and likely a 19th-century modillion stone cornice with a blocking course. There are external brick end stacks, with the upper sections rebuilt in the 19th century, incorporating blue-brick bands and projecting bullnose bricks at the stone caps. A central gabled dormer contains a doorway with plain barge boards and a finial. The facade has five bays, with boxed glazing bar sashes that have stone cills and gauged-brick heads, complete with raised keystones. The second-floor windows feature keyed segmental stone lintels. The central second-floor window and two right-hand ground-floor windows are late 20th-century casements. The central entrance is a 19th-century half-glazed door, with the lower pair of raised and fielded panels, framed by a wooden doorcase with Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature. There are two stone steps leading up to the door.

To the right of the main block, there is a two-storey service wing from the 19th century, made of red brick with a slate roof, dentil brick eaves cornice, and a central brick ridge stack. Adjacent to this is a late 19th-century two-storey flat-roofed block that projects forward.

The rear of the farmhouse also has five bays, featuring boxed glazing bar sashes with wooden cills and segmental heads. There are recessed blind segmental-headed two-storey panels in the second and fourth bays on the first and second floors. A pair of 19th-century ground-floor canted bays includes cornices and blocking courses. An 18th-century oak door, possibly the former front door, is located just off-centre to the right to avoid the staircase; it has six raised and fielded panels and is framed by a wooden doorcase with Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature.

Inside, the entrance hall has a stone floor. The rear features an 18th-century oak staircase that rises two floors, consisting of three flights around a square well with landings. The staircase has an open string, turned balusters (two per tread), and a ramped moulded handrail that is wreathed to a columnular foot newel. Throughout the farmhouse, there are six-panelled doors with moulded architraves.