Ash House Farmhouse

WHITCHURCH RURAL C.P. ASH PARVA SJ 53 NE 5/20 Ash House Farmhouse 26.11.82 - II

Farmhouse. Mid-C18 with mid-to late C19 alterations. Red brick with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. 3 storeys and attic. South-west (garden) front: brick plinth, and probably C19 modillion- stone cornice with blocking course. External brick end stacks, top sections rebuilt in C19 with blue-brick bands and projecting bullnose bricks to stone caps. Central gabled dormer (doorway) with plain barge boards and finial. 5 bays; boxed glazing bar sashes with stone cills and gauged- brick heads with raised keystones; second-floor windows with keyed segmental stone lintels. Central second-floor window and 2 right-hand ground- floor windows are late C20 casements. Central C19 half-glazed door (lower pair of raised and fielded panels) and wooden doorcase consisting of Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature. 2 stone steps up to door. C19 two- storey service wing to right; red brick with slate roof, dentil brick eaves cornice and central brick ridge stack. Late C19 two-storey flat- roofed block projecting forwards immediately to the right of the main block. Rear: 5 bays; boxed glazing bar sashes with wooden cills and segmental heads; recessed blind segmental-headed 2-storey panels in second and fourth bays, to first and second floors. Pair of C19 ground-floor canted bays with cornices and blocking courses. C18 oak door (possibly former front door) just off-centre to right (to avoid staircase) with 6 raised and fielded panels and wooden doorcase with Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature. Interior: entrance hall with stone floor. C18 oak staircase at rear, rising 2 floors, consisting of 3 flights around square well with landings, open string, turned balusters (2 per tread), and ramped moulded handrail, wreathed to columnular foot newel. 6-panelled doors throughout with moulded architraves.

Listing NGR: SJ5749339408