Ashley House

Ashley House is a house, built around 1840. It is now subdivided into four separate properties, known as East Ashley House, Lawnwood, Ashley Groome, and Ashley Mews. The house is constructed of ashlar stone with slate roofs and ashlar stacks. It has one storey and an attic, with a large basement storey visible on the south front.

The architectural style is asymmetrical, combining classical and Italianate details, with main fronts facing west and south. The basement features channelled rustication with a torus moulding above. The north and west fronts feature raised, rusticated quoin pilasters with moulded bases and caps. A moulded cornice runs around the building, topped by a moulded eaves cornice above the attic. Windows are generally four-pane sashes, with larger windows and architrave frames on the principal floor.

The east entrance front has a large, pedimented Roman Doric portico at the right side, featuring pilaster responds and an arched doorway with double doors and a traceried fanlight. A small square dome sits above the entrance. A similar arched recess is found on the north front, above the entrance door, and above an attic window. To the right of the centre of the east front is a pavilion, projecting outwards and featuring pilaster quoins, an applied pediment to the attic, and a main-floor window within an elaborate architrave, accompanied by a stone balcony supported by heavy brackets.

The west front has a canted, three-storey bay to the left, and a projection with pilaster quoins and a canted, three-storey bay to the right end. The centre of the west front has a channelled basement.

To the left of the east front is a service range: the first two storeys have an elliptical carriage arch, built with rusticated walling and flanked by doors in flat porches. Above the carriage arch is an attic floor, followed by a single-storey, four-window range of twelve-pane sashes in architraves, breaking through a raised band. At the east end of the service range is a two-storey pavilion with a hipped roof, recessed upper window, and an advanced lower floor with quoins, a raised band, and a twelve-pane sash breaking through the band.