Ashley Farm House And Front Piers And Railings

Ashley Farm House, built in the early 18th century, is constructed from squared rubble stone and features a stone-tiled roof with coped gables and end wall stacks. The house is two and a half storeys tall and has a symmetrical front with three windows. The windows are bead-moulded flush mullion types with hoodmoulds, and they include leaded lights. There are three dormer gables with 2-light windows. The first floor originally had a central 2-light window and 3-light windows on the outer sides, but the outer right window has been replaced by two 18th-century 12-pane sash windows, with a concave-sided diamond light in between and a hoodmould above. On the ground floor, there are 3-light windows on either side of a central door, which has a bead-moulded surround and a hood supported by brackets. The east end wall features a 9-pane sash window on the ground floor and a 12-pane sash window above, both in bead-moulded surrounds.

At the back, there are paired wings with coped gables and stacks at the north ends. The west wing has a dormer gable with a 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and a hoodmould above a similar 3-light window. The ground floor has a long hoodmould over a 3-light bead-moulded window and a later 2-light window. The east wing is similar, but its attic window is bead-moulded, and the ground floor has a single 3-light bead-moulded window.

Inside, the ground floor features a bead-moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with fielded-panel stone seats. There is also a low wall connecting to the front piers and railings. The front has two central ashlar corniced piers topped with urns and an iron spearhead gate, flanked by a low coped wall with spearhead rails that end at plain piers.