Ashfield House

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.