Plas Ashpool

Plas Ashpool is a three-storey, four-window house built in an irregular English Garden Wall bond with sandstone rusticated quoins. The slate roof features coped gables at both the front and rear, with a large lateral stone and brick chimney on the left and a smaller one on the right. The house has two large gables at both the front and rear, with the front gables connected by a parapet wall at mid-height. The middle two windows on the top storey at the front are set within this parapet and are bricked up, likely intended as false windows.

The ground and first storey windows are mostly hornless sash type with 12 panes, while the two top-storey windows have been replaced with modern versions. There is a six-panel main door located to the right of centre, featuring an overlight and a pedimented canopy supported by deep brackets.

To the right, there is a low modern extension, and all rear doors and windows have been replaced with modern versions.

Inside, the house is arranged with a central entrance hallway that separates the two main reception rooms. This hallway has a limestone flag floor and a staircase at the rear with two quarter-landings and turned balusters. The main rooms have six-panel doors. The drawing room on the left is fully wainscotted and features a fine Jacobean fireplace with an armorial overmantel. The fireplace is adorned with Ionic pilasters supporting an enriched ovolo. The overmantel consists of three main panels separated by grotesque figures of humans and animals; one female figure holds a severed head with its ruff still attached. Above, there is a frieze with pagan-like imagery between brackets and a plain cornice. The central panel displays the Order of the Garter with the Prince of Wales' Feathers and the initials PC, while the side panels feature coats of arms; the right panel includes the initials DA for Dorothy Ashpool.