Ashville

Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1840. T-plan, projecting glazed porch to east, pitched roofed porch to west, single-bay hipped roof projecting to north. Hipped fibre-cement pantile roof, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron gutters, circular cast-iron downpipes. Painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walling, painted channelled quoins. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows, tripartite windows to south comprising central one-over-one sliding sash windows flanked by decorative sidelights; pointed arch window to west elevation, stained glass light. Square-headed door opening within glazed porch; porch comprising smooth rendered plinth wall, painted stone coping, decorative fixed lights, paired slender fluted Doric pilasters to corners supporting frieze and cornice, painted timber and glazed door flanked by narrow sidelights, limestone steps surround porch. House situated in extensive grounds comprising pond to south-east, walled garden to south and stableyard to north. Segmental-headed arch within random rubble stone wall leads to ranges of one- and two-storey stone outbuildings; pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walling, square-headed window and door openings, red brick surrounds. Site bounded by rubble stone walls, accessed through wrought- and cast-iron latticework gates, latticework piers crowned by acanthus leaf motif; former gate lodge terminates vista to south.

Ashville House is an attractive country house which has retained many of its salient features. The delicate glazed porch is of particular note with the unusual and exquisitely engraved glass within the margin lights contributing to its artistic significance. The retention of much of the detail of the formal gardens and the survival of the outbuildings contribute to its interest and Ashville House forms the centre piece of a number of structures of architectural importance.