Ashley Farm House And Front Piers And Railings

ST 86 NW BOX ASHLEY

2/11 Ashley Farm House and front piers and railings. 20 12 60

GV II

House, early C18, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys, 3-window range symmetrical front with bead-moulded flush mullion windows and hoodmoulds. Leaded light. Three dormer gables with 2-light windows, first floor originally with 2-light to centre and 3-light outer windows, but outer right window replaced by 2 C18 12-pane sashes with concave-sided diamond light between and hoodmould over, ground floor 3-light windows flanking central door in bead-moulded surround with hood on brackets. East end wall has 9-pane ground floor sash and 12-pane sash above, both in bead-moulded surrounds. Paired rear wings with coped gables and north end stacks. West wing has dormer gable with 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould over similar 3-light window and ground floor long hoodmould over 3-light bead-moulded window and later 2-light window. East wing is similar, but attic window is bead-moulded and ground floor has single 3-light bead-moulded window.Interior: ground floor has bead-moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with fielded-pallened stone seats within. Attached low wall connecting to front pierand railings. Two central ashlar corniced pierswith urns and iron spearhead gate flanked by low coped wall with spearhead rails terminated at plain piers.

Listing NGR: ST8133868435