Ashfield Lodge

Ashfield Lodge is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with a rear service range added in the 17th century and later. The building underwent significant alterations in the early 19th century, which included raising and re-roofing the original house and adding a rear wing to the left that incorporates the parlour cell.

The main range is timber framed and plastered, designed to imitate ashlar, and features a hipped slated roof with wide plastered eaves. It has a three-cell form and stands three storeys tall. The first floor has five windows with 19th-century mullion and transom three-light casements that lack glazing bars, while the second floor has three half-height 19th-century casements. The ground floor has standard mid-20th-century casements and two doorways: a lobby entrance on the left with a 19th-century six-panel door, two upper panels of which are glazed, and a four-panel door on the right. An internal stack features a good original shaft with four flues arranged in a sawtooth pattern, complete with projecting bricks at the base.

The 19th-century wing is constructed of red brick and has a hipped slated roof. It is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay facade, where the central bay is slightly set forward. The inset sash windows are 9, 12, and 16-paned, set under rubbed brick arches, and the central window is placed within a three-centre arched recess. The upper right window is a dummy. The doorway features a six-panel raised and fielded door with a semi-circular fanlight that has glazing bars, all set within a semi-circular arched recess.

The service wing is timber framed and plastered, with a ground floor underbuilt in colourwashed brick and a pantiled roof that is not steeply pitched. It has several slatted windows, including one diamond-leaded window. The interior of the house has not been examined but is believed to be largely unaltered since the 19th century.