Ashfield House

GRASSINGTON MAIN STREET SE 0064-0164 (west side, off) 8/21 Ashfield House II House, now hotel. Late C17 with late C18 division and refenestration, C20 restoration. Grey gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with added bay to right. Quoins. C20 half-glazed door between bays 2 and 3 in chamfered quoined surround, the lintel raised and an overlight inserted above the door. Blocked doorways, now windows, to right of bays 1 and 3. Ground-floor windows: 3-light flat-faced mullions in chamfered surrounds to bays 1 and 2, a 3-light recessed chamfered mullion window to bay 3. First-floor windows: 3 of 3 lights, all have chamfered surrounds and flat-faced mullions. Shaped stone gutter brackets; corniced ashlar stacks to left end, between bays 1 and 2 and to right. Added bay: board door to left; C20 frame to window right, 6-pane sash to first floor; 2- flight external stairs to right, leading to a board door; dog-kennel door below. Interior: main range has square opening to fireplace with single- block incised lintel, narrow jambs and chamfer, bay 2. The house was probably a farmhouse in the C17, divided up into 3 cottages in the later C18 to house workers in the lead mines.

Listing NGR: SE0024064091