Ashdale House

An C18 Georgian-style house altered in the early C20, built of roughcast rubble stone under a renewed slate close-eaved roof and brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic, five-window symmetrical front with three slate-hung hipped dormers, which have 6-pane sashes. The main floors have 8-pane horned sash windows in original openings, longer on the ground floor. The windows have slate sills, except for the window R of centre which was previously a doorway. The door is 6-panel with lattice tracery in the overlight. It is set within a good mid-C18 wooden doorcase with Ionic half-columns carrying entablature sections with pulvinated friezes and overall dentil cornice. The outshut has 1970s rear windows and a stair window with 12-pane sashes. The tall narrow gabled section to the L was added in the 1970s. Set back in the L-hand end wall is a 1-storey flat-roofed projection with modern door.

Interior mostly 1970s but good dog-leg stair with column newels, scrolled tread ends, turned column balusters, three per tread, and moulded rail. Attic has five C18 oak collar trusses. Although rear is said to have been reduced from a range of similar height to front range to present sloping roof there is some old plaster on the sloping underside of the roof at first floor rear that suggests some part was outshut. The main stair apparently had a further two flights up to the attic, that would have required a taller rear range, marks of removed third flight on first floor landing. Stairs to attic now in C20 rear corner section. First floor landing has two fielded panelled doors and one with bordered panels.