Ash Farmhouse

Ash Farmhouse is a house that dates from the mid to late 16th century, with cladding and extensions added in the 18th century. The roof was rebuilt in the mid-20th century. The building is timber-framed and features red and blue chequered brick on the ground floor, tile hanging on the first floor and left return, weatherboarding on the right return, and a plain tiled roof. It has a two-cell lobby entry plan and stands two storeys high on sandstone footings to the left and red brick footings to the right. The roof has a projecting half-hip to the left with a gablet and is hipped to the right, with a rebuilt stack located at the centre left.

On the first floor, there are two three-light and one two-light wooden casement windows, while the ground floor has three-light, one-light, and four-light casements, along with an additional two-light window in the right outshot. There is a mid-20th century rib and stud door to the centre left, a catslide outshot, and a mid-20th century wing at the rear.

Inside, the roof was completely rebuilt after a lightning fire around 1968, with the new lines reproducing the original design. The frame below the roof level remains intact and undamaged, featuring large panel framing with a mid-rail, angular gunstock jowls on the main posts, and tongue-stopped chamfers in the principal rooms on each floor (to the right), which are also stopped at the spine beam. The ground floor includes a large sandstone block fireplace and chamfered wooden bresummers above the upper fireplaces.