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Askefield House — Dublin Road

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Askefield House — Dublin Road
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Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile house, extant 1836, on a cruciform plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting glazed porch to ground floor; single-bay two-storey recessed end bays; three-bay two-storey rear (west) elevation. Sold, 1860, to accommodate alternative use. "Improved", pre-1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1948. Resold, 1962. "Restored", 1999, to accommodate continued private residential use. Hipped slate roofs centred on hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, roughcast chimney stacks having cut-granite chamfered capping supporting terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded eaves having paired timber consoles. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening into house with step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having concrete capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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