Ashdell House

1. 5321 FORNCETT Tabernacle Lane (east side) TM 19 SW 7/1197 Ashdell House

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1. House. Late C17, altered in late C19. Timber-framed, clad in late C19 red brick with rusticated quoins to stucco front; gabled pantile roof; brick ridge stack. 3-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Gabled porch with carved bargeboards and pilasters to bracketed flat hood over Tudor-arched doorway: flanked by lean-to bay windows with revealed decorative tile panels; first floor 4-pane sashes. Flat brick arches over windows to sides and rear. Interior: exposed timber frame with jowled and unjowled storey posts; ground floor room to right (former parlour) has ovolo-moulded beams with elaborate niched stops and ovolo-moulded bressummer with similar niched stop over blocked open fireplace; central room (former hall) has stop-chamfered beams, soffit mortices for removed mullioned window to rear and chamfered bressummer with elaborate niched stops over blocked open fireplace; service area to left has original lateral partition and stop-chamfered beam and morticing to soffit of beam marking position of original transerve partition; original transverse partition to first floor.

Listing NGR: TM1420993657