Hill Ash House

DYMOCK LEDBURY ROAD SO 73 SW (west side)

5/82 Hill Ash House

II

House. Probably early C18, altered early Cl9 and early C20. Rendered front, lined as ashlar, Flemish-bond brickwork returns: slate roof: tiled to rear. Four-window front, 3 rooms deep, 3 storeys. Front elevation; centre breaks forward for full height. Ground floor 4-bay open Doric portico, fluted columns, square bases: behind 8-panel door, moulded surround, intersecting glazing bars to rectangular fanlight. Outside porch left and right 16-pane sash, flat head. Plain string to first floor: two 16-pane sashes in projecting centre over porch, cambered heads; an ordinary sash in returns, 16-pane sash with flat head each side. Second floor windows as below, but all 2-light casement. Wide projection moulded stone cornice, plain parapet set back behind. Hipped roof: rendered chimneys on ends. To left set back single-window, 2- storey projection, flat roof, 16-pane sashes facing front. To right single-storey wing, parapet, 16-pane sash. Internally front altered to a single room, Jacobean-style fireplace on left, dogleg stairs on right, cut string, 3 turned balusters per tread (one spiral, one fluted, one spiral fluted, all gadrooned): wreath at bottom, moulded handrail, square newels: may be reset. Six-panel doors to rear. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; the Rev. J.E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966)

Listing NGR: SO7002032008