Description

ASHOVER
SK36NW HIGH ASHES LANE
1264-0/5/52 (East side)
Outbuilding to west of High Ashes
Farmhouse

GV II

Farm outbuilding, formerly stable and cowhouse. Dated 1844.
Regularly coursed squared gritstone, with channel tooling,
ashlar dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers, stone
slates and concrete tiles. East elevation has gabled 2-storey
range to centre, flanked by single-storey ranges with hipped
gables, each of 3 bays. Central range with tall wide quoined
doorway beneath a dated stone lintel. Above, a stilted
semicircular headed opening with radiating glazing bars to the
fanlight. Above, a rectangular perch, with 6 openings serving
an attic dovecote with 6 entry holes. Flanking ranges each
originally with 3 doorways, giving access to standings for
cattle, all with massive stone frames, and with each of the
central doorways having become a window, and now blocked below
sill level. Planked stable doors to remaining doorways. Rear
elevation with flight of stone steps to taking-in doorway to
central gabled range.
Listed for Group Value.

Listing NGR: SK3474665996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513140

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas