Manor of Saint John — Ashe Road

Detached three- or five-bay two-storey house, built 1842, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay two-storey gabled projecting breakfront; four-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1947. Renovated, 1998, to accommodate alternative use. Disused, 2004. Replacement hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks having stepped capping supporting crested terracotta tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Cavetto" cornice; pitched (gabled) slate roof (breakfront) with ridge tiles, cut-limestone "Cavetto" coping to gables on gabled kneelers with octagonal finial to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone "Cavetto" cornice with cast-iron downpipes. Vitrified blue brick-detailed red brick Flemish bond walls to front (east) elevation on cut-limestone cushion course on red brick Flemish bond plinth with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; replacement rendered surface finish (remainder). Tudor-headed central door opening in square-headed recess approached by two cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having moulded reveals with hood moulding on monolithic label stops framing replacement timber boarded double doors. Pointed segmental-headed or triangular-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (first floor), cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing timber casement windows behind wire mesh screen. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (remainder) with cut-limestone cruciform mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing timber casement windows behind wire mesh screens. Set in relandscaped grounds.