Ashdell House

Ashdell House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is timber-framed and covered in late 19th century red brick, featuring rusticated quoins on the stucco front. The house has a gabled pantile roof and a brick ridge stack. It follows a 3-unit lobby-entry plan, stands two storeys tall, and has a three-window range. The gabled porch is adorned with carved bargeboards and pilasters, supporting a bracketed flat hood over a Tudor-arched doorway. This doorway is flanked by lean-to bay windows that have revealed decorative tile panels, while the first floor features four-pane sash windows. There are flat brick arches over the windows on the sides and rear of the house.

Inside, the house retains an exposed timber frame with both jowled and unjowled storey posts. The ground floor room to the right, which was formerly a parlour, has ovolo-moulded beams with elaborate niched stops and an ovolo-moulded bressummer with a similar niched stop above a blocked open fireplace. The central room, which was the former hall, features stop-chamfered beams, soffit mortices indicating a removed mullioned window to the rear, and a chamfered bressummer with elaborate niched stops over another blocked open fireplace. The service area to the left retains its original lateral partition, stop-chamfered beam, and morticing on the soffit of the beam that marks the position of the original transverse partition. The original transverse partition is also present on the first floor.