Ashe House

Ashe House is a surviving part of a large Tudor house built between 1583 and 1586. It was burned by Royalists in 1644 and subsequently rebuilt from 1669 to 1683, with some parts dismantled in 1782. The structure is made of stone rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof with gabled ends and stone coping. The original house was likely E-shaped in plan, but only the south west wing and a short section of the main range remain. The building has two storeys, and the south west elevation has seven windows. It includes four-light stone mullion windows with four-centred arch lights and leaded panes, as well as external and corbelled chimney stacks on the south west side. The east side of the south west wing features a six-light chamfered mullion window and a two-centred arch doorway leading to the cellars, which lacks capitals. There is also a small two-light window on the side. The north east wing has a large five-light mullion/transom window. The interior is reported to have been stripped. Although it was once thought to be the birthplace of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, it is more accurately noted that he was baptized in the nearby chapel.