Ash View Rest Home On East Corner With Bell Lane

Ash View Rest Home is a large house with an early 18th-century core, extended in the mid-19th century (after 1839), to the northeast in 1893 (as indicated by a plaque inside), and to the east and south in 1901-2. From around 1880, the various extensions were carried out for G S Pawle Esq by H A Pelly. The house is constructed primarily of pink-washed brick, with grey brick exposed on the rear wing, and stands on a prominent corner location. The front range has roofs of bands of plain and scalloped buff tiles, while elsewhere slate roofs are used.

The original central portion features three bays defined by giant order brick pilasters, incorporating an interrupted floor band and formerly gable chimneys. These pilasters are detailed with a delicate moulded necking, a deep frieze, and a moulded cornice with narrow dentils. It has three flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and Gothick tracery. The right-hand bay contains a 19th-century stucco porch with Composite order pilasters and a full entablature with a dentilled cornice, featuring glazed double doors with Gothick tracery. To the right is a mid-19th-century crosswing, taller than the main block, with a low slated hipped roof and a large upper oriel window over a three-light lower window.

A later extension extended the front by a further three bays to the east in a vigorous Arts and Crafts style. This extension connected to the original middle portion with a continuation of the banded buff tiled roof, which creates the impression of a dentil cornice due to projecting rafter feet. Three sash windows with Gothick tracery are grouped centrally, with two lower upper-floor windows over the outer windows. A small, triangular rooflight with a deep ornamental bargeboard is near the ridge. The new east external gable chimney has the upper floor projected out on heavy moulded wooden brackets. The elaborate gable bargeboard features a moulded collar and a grid of timbers above.

Ash View is a picturesque historic house on a prominent site at the bend of the road leading into the village and contributes to a varied group of buildings within the Conservation Area.