NHER 41139 (Building record) - Stratton House, No 4 Ash Close

January 1973. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House. Mid 18th century with c.1890 house attached at east end. Original block of red brick and pantiled roof (slate to rear). Addition to east of red brick under machine-tiled roof. Exterior: single storey and dormer attic on basement. Five-window range. Central bay projects under a gable...Internal gable-end stacks west and east. Two-storey addition to east; irregular four-window range...Hipped roof with gable over centre of façade...Stacks on side slopes. Interior: 18th-century range with 18th-century cornices to principal rooms and 19th-century fireplaces. 19th-century staircase with bobbin-turned balusters and ramped handrail. 19th-century range with splat balusters to closed-string staircase, panelled newels with ball finials."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 February 2024.

May 2003. Building survey.
This house is of unusual design in that the ground floor is semi-subterranean and the principal floor is approached by a double flight of stone steps. The building is of brick under a pantiled roof, and has a central pediment above the front door. The general design is of a piano nobile above a basement in a provincial version of a Palladian model.
See report (S2) and photographs in file.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 2 February 2005.

Following a visit by E Rose NLA in 1990 the house was judged to be of around 1780 probably incorporating the core of an older building. A stable retaining original fittings was adjacent.
See report (S3) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 May 2007.

July-August 2008. Metal detecting.
Norman limestone moulding from garden; Medieval sherds and roof tiles: Medieval/Post-Medieval and Post-Medieval metal objects from trench in front of hotel.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 September 2008