The Aske

Detached three-bay single-storey country house with half-dormer attic, designed 1831; built 1832, on a square plan centred on (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle portico; three-bay (south) or two-bay (north) full-height side elevations. For sale, 1854. Leased, 1855-65. Renamed, 1893. Occupied, 1901. Leased, 1911. Vacant, 1912. "Repaired", 1942. Sold, 1946. For sale, 2014. Hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan centred on gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic, pressed or rolled lead ridges, paired rendered octagonal central chimney stacks on cushion courses on rendered bases having panelled capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, quatrefoil-perforated decorative timber bargeboards to gablets with octagonal finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on quatrefoil-detailed decorative timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Tudor-headed central door opening behind (single-storey) prostyle tetrastyle portico approached by flight of three cut-granite steps with carved timber mullions on cut-granite step threshold supporting carved timber transom, and carved timber surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window openings (ground floor) with cut-granite chamfered sills, timber cruciform mullions, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings on label stops framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement (half-dormer attic) with cut-granite chamfered sill course, timber Y-mullions, and concealed dressings having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing four-over-four timber sash windows having Y-tracery glazing bars. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, panelled vaulted ceiling with moulded plasterwork ribs on panelled octagonal corbels, and Tudor-headed opening into inner hall with carved timber surround framing carved timber Classical-style surround to door opening framing timber panelled door; living room (south-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, "Acanthus"-detailed cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; square-headed door opening into sitting room with carved timber Classical-style surround framing timber panelled double doors; sitting room (south-west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, "Acanthus"-detailed cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; dining room (north-east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds.