Ashfield House is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971.
Ashfield House
- WRENN ID
- slow-kitchen-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Constituency
- West Dunbartonshire MP: Douglas McAllister (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 405 840
- Coordinates
- 56.02269, -4.55958
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ashfield House is an early 19th-century, two-story, three-bay classical house with single-story, piend-roofed pavilion wings. The house is built of rubble with ashlar margins and dressings. Architectural details include a cornice, blocking course, eaves band, quoins, a base course, and moulded architraves.
The south elevation features steps and a platt leading to an ashlar pilastered and pedimented doorcase at the center. The doorcase has a cavetto moulding, a six-panelled door, a decorative fanlight, and a narrow window to the right of the door. Symmetrical corniced flanking windows complete the ground floor. Three windows are symmetrically disposed on the first floor. Single-story, piend-roofed wings extend to both sides.
The east elevation displays a two-bay block with windows to the outer left and right, a rendered wallhead stack at the center, and a single-story wing at ground level. The west elevation consists of a two-bay main block and a single-story wing at ground level, with a door at the center flanked by windows.
The north elevation features a three-bay main block, a round-headed stair window at the center (now a modern window), and flanking windows. Two gabled, single-story wings project to the outer left and right. Broad window to the recessed arch of the left wing features a four-lying-pane over plate glass. A former door has been blocked and converted into a window in the gable of the right wing, with an apex stack above. A modern, flat-roofed, rendered block serves as an infill at the center.
The house has twelve-pane timber sash and case windows throughout. The roof is covered with grey slate, with piend sections and lead flashings. Broad, rendered and coped wallhead stacks are present. The interior was not inspected in 1995.
A walled garden, approximately 50 meters by 40 meters, is located to the east. The high rubble walls are pointed with harl and topped with slab coping, while a low plinth wall with cast-iron railings runs along the south side. A paired gatepier of ashlar with chamfered arrises and depressed caps formerly marked the entrance, constructed of squared rubble with semicircular coping. The gates have been removed.
Ashfield House appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1865.
Local climate
Ashfield House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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