Walled Garden, Ashfield House

Ashfield House is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay classical house with single-storey, piend-roofed pavilion wings. The construction is of rubble with ashlar margins and dressings, featuring a cornice, blocking course, eaves band, quoins, and a base course. Moulded architraves are also present.

The south elevation, the main facade, has steps and a platt leading to an ashlar pilastered and pedimented doorcase at the centre, incorporating a cavetto moulding, a six-panelled door, a decorative fanlight, and a narrow window immediately to the right of the door. Symmetrical corniced flanking windows complete the ground floor. Three windows are symmetrically disposed at the first floor. Single-storey, piend-roofed wings extend from the south elevation.

The east elevation features a two-bay block with windows to the outer left and right, a rendered wallhead stack at the centre, and a single-storey wing at ground level. The west elevation shows a two-bay main block and a single-storey wing with a door at the centre, flanked by windows.

The north elevation displays a three-bay main block, with a round-headed stair window at the centre (now a replacement), flanked by windows. Two gabled, single-storey wings project to the outer left and right. On the left wing, a broad window is set within a recessed arch (featuring four-lying-pane glazing over plate glass). A former door in the gable of the right wing has been blocked and replaced with a window, with an apex stack. A modern, flat-roofed, rendered block serves as an infill at the centre.

The windows are timber sash and case windows with 12-lying-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead flashings, and features broad, rendered and coped wallhead stacks. The interior was not inspected in 1995.

To the east of the house is a walled garden, approximately 50 by 40 metres. This is enclosed by a high rubble wall with harl pointing and slab coping, with a low plinth wall supporting cast-iron railings to the south.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of paired ashlar gatepiers with chamfered arrises and depressed caps, built of squared rubble with semicircular coping. The gates have been removed.

Ashfield House is depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1865. The house and its associated features are located within the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.