Ashbourne Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining East

This is an early 17th-century farmhouse that was altered and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries, with an outbuilding attached to the east side. The house is built of painted and rendered slate rubble, likely with some cob, and has an asbestos tile roof, hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. The outbuilding has slate rubble walls with a slate half-hipped roof, and rendered axial and end stacks.

The original layout was a three-room plan with a through passage facing south. The main hall has a lower end axial stack backing onto the passage. A two-story projecting bay window (oriel) extends from the front of the hall, and a stair turret projects from the rear. The inner room is heated by a gable-end stack. The lower end room appears to be unheated, although a lateral stack may have originally been located on the back wall. This room was later divided into two unheated rooms on the ground floor, with a doorway opening directly to the front. The outshut behind the hall and the outbuilding to the right, which includes a loft above, are likely 18th-century additions.

The front of the house has an asymmetrical six-window arrangement. Small 19th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars and slate sills are present. The projecting hall bay features a 19th-century three-light window with glazing bars in an original opening with a stone hoodmould. The front doorway in the passage is a circa late 18th or early 19th-century six-panel door with glazed upper panels, a shallow rectangular overlight, and an open-fronted pentice roof porch. The porch has a stone wall on the left and incorporates the hall bay on the right, with a corrugated plastic roof supported by original timber cantilevers. A divided plank door is located at the lower left end of the front. A mounting block sits to the left of the central passage doorway. The outbuilding to the right has a plank door, a small ground-floor two-light window, and an external stone staircase leading to a doorway in the end wall. At the rear is a single-story outshut with a hipped slate roof behind the higher left end and a small ground-floor window in the lower right end.

The interior largely reflects the 18th and 19th-century remodeling. The hall retains boxed-in cross-beams, one with a pronounced camber. The hall fireplace is blocked by a 20th-century grate. An 18th-century china cupboard with shaped shelves is found in the inner room. There are also some 18th-century two-panel doors on the first floor. The lower left-hand room has straight principal rafters with lapped and pegged collars. The upper end roof is inaccessible, and the feet of the trusses are not visible from the first floor rooms.