Ascott Manor

Ascott Manor is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the early 17th century and was remodeled and extended around 1800 and later. The building features rendered limestone rubble walls with limestone ashlar dressings and has old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. It has a two-unit lobby-entry plan that has been extended to an L-plan and later infilled. The structure is two storeys high, plus attics, and has a two-window entrance front with a plinth, parapet, and added pilaster strips. The central entrance is a panel door under a stone canopy, flanked by 16-pane sash windows, with 12-pane sashes above, all beneath 17th-century stone labels. The roof has a central clustered stack on a stone base and gable parapets.

The right gable wall, which faces the garden, features similar windows, a three-light stone-mullioned gable window, and continues to a three-window range from around 1800. This range includes a central full-height tripartite sash, a stone arched entrance to the left with a recessed doorway and ornamental overlight, and a 12-pane sash to the right, with sashes of 12, 16, and 12 panes on the first floor, all with re-used labels. The left gable of the front range has a two-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned window without a label. The two-window left rear range may date back to the 17th century and includes 16-pane sashes, remnants of blocked stone-mullioned windows, and a doorway with a chamfered stone surround. A lower range further to the rear features brick segmental arches.

Inside, the front range has Tudor-arched stone fireplaces, back to back, and moulded beams. The garden range includes a double-height stair hall with a plaster modillion cornice and an open-well stair. The front range has a butt-purlin roof. Ascott Manor was formerly part of the Ascott estate, and Ascott Park is included in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission County Register of Gardens at Grade II.