Ashcombe Park

Ashcombe Park is a small country house, built between 1807 and 1811, with additions made in the mid-19th century by James Trubshaw Junior. The exterior is clad in extremely fine sandstone ashlar, with a hipped slate roof hidden behind a blocking course. Corniced ashlar stacks mark the lines of the hips.

The front of the house, facing the road, has four bays, featuring a plinth, a raised string at first-floor level, and a cornice. It has glazing bar sash windows, with the ground-floor windows set in shallow, arch-headed reveals. A slight break in the inner bays creates a single-story, four-columned (tetrastyle) Tuscan porte-cochere, sheltering glazed double doors and matching side lights. The rear garden front has six uninterrupted bays, similar to the front. An orangery and a service courtyard are located at the rear.

Inside, the entrance hall features paired doors – one of which is a dummy – and a central fireplace set in an arch-headed reveal. The stair hall rises to the full height of the building's centre, with three-bay, round-arched arcades on the east and west sides of the first floor. A glazed elliptical cupola with battered sides tops the stair hall. The cantilevered stone staircase has a cast balustrade in a criss-cross pattern. The staircase was previously taken down and reconfigured around a new curtail newel. The Drawing Room contains fine plaster wall panels and elliptical ends to the east and west.