Ashmount House

Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, with entrance porch and return and extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course. Channelled render to entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows. Limestone sills to windows on front elevation, sandstone sills to windows on rear elevation. Segmental-headed door opening to porch with panelled pilasters flanking timber panelled door set within a shoulder-arched opening. Gazed overlight and sandstone threshold to door. Two-storey outbuildings to rear yard. Rock-faced limestone entrance piers supporting wrought-iron double gates flanked by quadrant walls.

Located amongst prize-winning gardens and accessed through notable limestone entrance gates, Ashmount House is a well proportioned modest house. Its simple regular façade is enlivened by the channeled entrance porch containing a timber panelled door with a central fillet and stucco surround. The original timber sash windows and door contribute to the character of the house.