Ashfield House, Elswick Road

Ashfield Parents Centre and Ashfield Nursery, School and walls, gate piers and gate attached.
Ashfield House; c.1830 for Richardson, tanner; now in educational use. Sandstone
ashlar; dark slate roofs, graduated over main block. U-plan with wings running
forward to enclose garden. 2 storeys; main block 3 bays; central projecting
enclosed Tuscan porch with 4 pilasters has 6-panelled door with overlight and
narrow side lights; cornice and blocking course. Renewed glazing to tripartite
window above in plain reveal with projecting stone sill; similar single windows in
side bays. Eaves band, gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with no chimneys
visible. Slightly lower wings have 3 similar windows on inner returns, some blind;
end walls, to street have 4-panelled doors, that to No. 101 at right renewed, and
one window each floor. Quadrant walls enclosing garden have ramped flat coping;
2 tall square gate piers, Gothic-panelled, have overlapping pyramidal coping.
Wrought iron gate with dog bars. LISTED GRADE 2