Ashley Lodge

Ashley Lodge is a house dating from around 1820. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, with rendered gable stacks and a double-pile slate and pantile roof. The house has a two-depth plan and is built in a late Georgian style.

The two-storey, cellar and attic house has a symmetrical front with three windows. Features include pilasters, a cornice, a parapet, and coped gables. Pennant stone steps lead to a Tuscan portico with an entablature and parapet, sheltering a six-panel door. The ground-floor windows are low, mid-19th century sashes with margin bars, while the first-floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes. Two 20th-century 3/3-pane dormers are also present. Leaded gutter boxes on small stone brackets run back from the parapet to the rear elevation, which is roughcast and has sashes in flush boxes and a central semicircular-arched stair window.

The interior features a narrow central hall with a half-glazed passage door, divided by a semicircular arch on fluted pilasters from a curved dogleg staircase. The staircase has stick balusters, column newels, and a cross-banded, ramped rail with a marquetry star in the newel. The front rooms contain elliptical-arched recesses, marble fireplaces, cornices, double two-panel shutters, and six-panel mahogany doors. The attic rooms are separated by six-pane windows. A flagged cellar has side-hung six-pane windows. The house was reputedly the residence of the French Consul.