Description

Ashfield House, Ashfield Park
12/165
9/165

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Ashfield House, Ashfield Park
12/165
9/165

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ST4619 MARTOCK CP ASHFIELD PARK (North side)

12/165 Ashfield House

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Large detached house, now in multiple occupancy. Before 1849. Built by William Cole Wood, then principal tradesman and
landowner in town. Ham stone ashlar; hipped Welsh slate roofs; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys with basement, 4 bays.
Plinth, string courses, eaves cornice and plain low parapet, end pilasters: casement windows of 6 panes above and 8
panes below, in architraves, the upper windows having bracketted cills on console brackets to hoods, the lower hoods
only and aprons; the basement windows have segmental arches: bay 3 is expressed as a short tower, with flanking
panelled pilasters, Doric porch with fluted columns in antis carrying an entablature set in segmental arch, framing a
pair of studded 4-panel doors with fanlight and sidelight; pediment at eaves level and open balustrade: to lower bay 4
a single-storey lean-to, in similar style but possibly later, with 3 bays each having plain sash windows: north-east
corner chamfered. Matching elevation to south side of 3 wide bays, of which the outer bays project slightly, and the
centre bay has a segmental bow, with the remnants of a verandah at lower level. Interior not seen. (VCH, Vol III,
1974).

Listing NGR: ST4614919378

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518334

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)