The Ashes

The Ashes is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with a front wing added in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was altered around 1900 and subsequently modified. The house is timber-framed, with painted plaster infill on a rubble plinth, and has a roughcast front with applied timber framing. The roof is tiled, with slate to the raised front pitch, and has external end stacks. The overall shape is an ‘L’.

The front of the house has two floors and three windows, arranged symmetrically. The entrance has a moulded timber architrave and overlight above a six-panel door, beneath a C20 hipped open porch. C20 bay windows with hipped roofs flank the doorway, and the first floor windows have moulded timber architraves to eight/eight pane sashes, with a six/six pane sash in the centre. The timber framing is square, with staggered half-rails that overlap in the centre. The roofs are gabled.

The right return side has square timber framing, as does the rear. A plastered lean-to projection is present on the rear, along with a later 20th-century garage. The left return side also has some exposed timber framing and a later 20th-century lean-to addition. The front gable has a worn, moulded timber verge.

The earlier part of the house features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and plank doors.