The Laundry To North Of The Cottage

A former laundry and attached house, built between 1743 and 1801, and altered in 1900-01 by William Huckvale for Charles Rothschild. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with hipped and half-hipped thatched roofs, and features stone ridge and end stacks with moulded ashlar flues. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival. The complex plan includes a linking corridor to the back of the house, a long cross wing containing the main laundry rooms, and a wing extending to the rear of this.

The house section has a gable to the left with a leaded four-light stone mullioned window with a hoodmould to both floors. A square bay window, a part-glazed door with overlight, and a small eyebrow dormer are set within a verandah. Further windows and a stack are present on the right end, with a three-light and a two-light window. Similar windows are found to the rear, along with a plank door. The linking corridor incorporates a part-glazed door, a screen, mullioned and transomed windows, and an eyebrow dormer. The long cross wing has two-light mullioned and transomed windows to the sides and rear, and taller four-light windows to the ends. Roof louvres have thatched roofs. A single-storey wing to the rear of the cross wing has single- and two-light windows to the sides and three plank doors on the end.

The interior of the cross wing features green-tiled dados and white-tiled walls above. This extensive complex is an important part of the model estate buildings of Ashton built by Charles Rothschild, and has significant group value.