Ashe Cottages

Ashe Cottages, originally a single house known as Ashe Farm, dates from the late 17th century, with deeds from 1692-1694. It has been converted into three houses and extended to the north in the 18th century. The building is long, two storeys high with attics, and constructed of timber framing with plaster. It faces east and features a steep old red tile gabled roof, which includes a large 18th-century hipped front dormer on the middle house, situated in front of a large central chimney. The northern part (No 3) has a rear lateral chimney.

At the back, there is a continuous single-storey lean-to made of brick and pantile, with weatherboarded ends above the eaves. The southern part (No 1) and the middle part (No 2) were originally a three-unit house with a central chimney, lobby entry, back-to-back fireplaces, and a large domed oven at the rear. The corner fireplace in the southern room is likely a later addition. Inside, there are chamfered axial ceiling beams with bold bar and quirked ogee stops in both main rooms, and generally, there are two-panel 18th-century doors with HL hinges. Pargetting is said to survive in the roof space of the lean-to at the back.

On the first floor of No 1, there is an applied timber shutter-guide on the rear wall, and chamfered beams are also present on this level. The middle chamber features a cast iron reeded grate. The east wall plate has face halved and bladed scarf joints. The roof has clasped purlins with high set purlins to provide extra headroom in the attics. The southern gable has a two-light wooden casement window for the attic and a three-light window on the ground floor. The older part of the east front has three flush box sash windows with 4/8 panes on each floor. The two doors have shaped brackets and flat hoods, with a four-panel flush beaded door at No 1 and a half-glazed door at No 2. Nos 1 and 2 feature a mutule eaves soffit, which is absent at No 3, where the eaves are lower. No 3 has a four-panelled flush beaded door on the left with a small sash window above, and one window on each floor on the right, with flush box sash windows having 2/4 or 6/6 panes.