Ashbourne

This is a large, irregular house, likely dating from the late 18th century and significantly extended in the mid-19th century. It is built of stucco in a Jacobethan style and has two storeys and attics, with steep tiled roofs featuring quatrefoil pierced bargeboards. The east-facing elevation features a tall, narrow central section with sash windows, gabled to the front, with a projecting polygonal bay at the rear supported by brackets. The left-hand section also projects and is divided into two wide bays and one narrow bay, defined by buttresses reaching a recessed jettied upper floor with bull-nosed joists and sash windows. A round-arched entrance, with double doors and a Classical architrave, is located in a narrow bay next to the centre. The recessed right-hand section has three gabled dormers above four sash windows set within a jettied first floor, with prominent brackets at intervals. A decorative plaster band depicting arabesques and fleur-de-lis runs around the house, and vertical lines in the plaster mark the corners. The oldest section at the rear of the left-hand part has roofs of a low pitch. Formerly known as Bourne House, this is a large, picturesque Victorian Jacobethan house.