Ashley Manor House

Ashley Manor House is a house that was used as a school until 1984 and is currently unoccupied. It was built around 1830-1840 and extended in the late 19th century. The exterior is finished in painted stucco with lead rolls on hipped slate roofs and deep eaves, featuring off-ridge stacks made of yellow brick. The house has an overall L-shaped plan with two principal rooms on the garden front to the right (east) of the hall passage, which has an entrance on the south front and a stairwell on the left, while service rooms are located in the two-storey late 19th-century right-angled extension on the left (west) side.

The entrance front on the south has a three-window range of hornless 12-paned sashes. The ground floor features 6 over 9 paned hornless sashes flanking a brick porch, which has carved stone console brackets supporting a slate roof topped with a decorative cast iron balcony. The round-arched doorway is surrounded by a rusticated frame and includes a four-panelled door with quoin pilasters.

The garden front (south) consists of three bays, highlighted by a two-storey bow window with a conical slate roof. Each floor has tripartite sashes, with the centre featuring 12-paned sashes and 8-paned sash sidelights. There are 12-paned sashes on each side above a 6 over 9 paned sash to the left and a 2 over 3 paned sash to the right, both with margin glazing bars. Plain moulded pilasters are present at each end and beside the central bow. A short recessed bay at the right end has a four-paned sash on the ground floor, and a tall round-arched stair window is located on the west side.

Inside, much of the internal joinery remains intact, including six-panelled doors, shutters, and dado panelling in the hallway and main staircase, which features a lozenge motif. The hall has a cross-vaulted ceiling, and the main dog-leg staircase is adorned with a wreathed handrail and decorative cast iron balusters. A room at the north end has a round-arched window with an internal eared architrave above a heavy marble mid-19th-century chimneypiece.