Ashford House

Ashford House is a house, later used as a shop and now offices, with origins in the late 16th century. It was altered in the 17th century and remodelled in the early 19th century, with further changes in the 20th century, including shop fronts added and alterations from 1983-85. The building is constructed of rendered and colourwashed brick, with some timber framing, and has a plain tile roof that is hipped at the left end, featuring a ridge stack.

The front elevation has two storeys and four windows. A recessed doorway is located to the right of the centre, flanked by plate-glass display windows. The first floor has four recessed sash windows with 8/8 glazing bars and elongated horns. A central plaque reads 'Estabd 1833 (Messrs.Flick)'. A plain parapet sits above a moulded eaves cornice. The right-hand window on the ground floor was likely formerly a carriageway leading to the rear. The rear has two gables, the one to the right replacing a wall stack during restorations in the 1980s.

The ground floor has been altered to create offices. The principal room on the first floor to the front retains exposed timber framing, bridging beams, and joists with chamfers and run-out stops. A room to the right has some early 17th-century small-framed panelling below a pargetted frieze decorated with fleur-de-lys motifs. A room at the left end contains the jamb of a doorway at the head of a former staircase, decorated with 16th-century wave and roll mouldings. The roof was altered, but two tiers of butt purlins indicate reconstruction around 1680.