Ashcroft House

Ashcroft House is a detached house with a possible late 17th/early 18th century core, significantly enlarged in the late 18th century into a double range. Further extensions to the west occurred during the 19th century, alongside a smaller addition to the entrance front, likely dating to the mid-19th century. The house is constructed of random coursed rubble stone, primarily ashlar faced and partly rendered, with raised alternating quoins. It has stone slate roofs, hipped at the outer side of each block, and features a moulded stone cornice and blocking course to the garden front and right-hand return. Stone end stacks have offset moulding.

The main double range is three storeys high, while the single west range is two storeys with an attic, and there is a single-storey section to the far west. The south-facing garden front has two 16-pane sashes on the left, three 12-pane sashes to the main range with a 9-pane sash above. All windows are in plain reveals and feature a sill band at the first floor level. The ground floor includes a tripartite plate glass sash to the far left, half-glazed double doors to the right of the left-hand wing, and two large segmental bows with 12/20/12-pane sashes flanking a central three-quarter glazed door.

The north-facing entrance front features a single-storey entrance bay with a 6-panel door to the far left, and a three-bay, two-storey addition to the right, with three 12-pane sashes above three large blind segmental arched recesses. The west side of the rear range retains a heavy chamfered wood mullion to a window in the cellar and on the second floor.

Inside, much of the original joinery remains, including a stick baluster staircase with a wreathed and ramped handrail up to the first floor, continuing with turned balusters and a straight rail above.