Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Ashfield
Location
On an elevated site at the bottom of Rectory Road on the corner with Brecon Road; reached by a short driveway entered between rubble gate piers and pointed wooden gates.
History
Early C19 (on 1840 Tithe Map)
Exterior
Regency 2-storey house with stucco, partly scribed fronts; slate roofs, wide bracketed and panelled eaves, 3 cement rendered chimney stacks. Main front is of 3 windows, right hand bay set back and with recessed door beyond; 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor, 20-pane below with cills just above ground level. Flat-roofed verandah with boarded ceiling to left 2 bays supported on cast iron cylindrically grouped uprights (some missing); returns to gable ended entrance front; 12-pane sash window above 6-panel door with moulded architrave, panelled reveals, some panels of imitation bamboo type; 5-pane fanlight.
Roughcast rear with segmental headed window to staircase; slate roof cross range to right rear with sash windows.
Interior
Interior retains contemporary staircase with moulded tread-ends and scroll-ended newel posts.
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