Ashridge Cottages

Ashridge Cottages are eight estate cottages built in 1928-29 for Rt. Hon. J.C.C. Davidson, M.P., designed by Clough Williams-Ellis. They served as estate housing for Ashridge. The cottages are constructed with rendered brick walls and pantile pitched roofs, hipped at the ends. They feature multi-pane sash windows and brick chimneys. The arrangement is a wide courtyard, with two cottages set forward, four set back, and two further cottages set forward at each end.

The main range comprises four attached cottages, each with a symmetrical three-bay facade. The ground floor windows are 6/9 sashes, and the first floor windows are three 6/6 sashes. Some board shutters remain on the central first-floor window of one unit. Each cottage has a central door with a cantilevered flat-roof porch. Brick chimneys are shared between the cottages. The rear elevation of this range includes three 3/6 sashes to the centre two cottages, and one 6/6 sash to each end cottage.

The detached blocks of two cottages at each end have similar elevations, but the short end of the outward-facing units addresses the street, featuring a ground-floor 6/9 sash and a shallow semi-circular arch with flanking shutters. Round plaques outlined in black are present throughout the scheme: "JCCD" is on the front left cottage (to the side of the street), "Ashridge Cottages 1929" is centrally on the rear range over the arched through-passage, and a blank plaque is positioned over the arched through-passage at the rear. The end walls of the end units have wide chimneys positioned centrally on the hipped roofs, above a ground-floor window.

The interior of the cottages has not been inspected.