Listed Building record MDR5142 - Raven House, Greenfield Lane, Ashover

Raven House, Greenfield Lane, Ashover, originally a 17th century building. 'Raven House, Milltown, is a fine 17th century gabled structure, with a symmetrical front. A datestone reads 167-. The house has a central stack with a stair tower at the back, a later addition to the north-west corner. The original plan of the building is identical to Broomhill Farmhouse, Brackenfield.' (1) 'Vernacular building dated to the 1670s. Datestone is very worn and cannot be fully read.' (2) From the National Heritage List for England: 'ASHOVER SK36SE OAKSTEDGE LANE 1264-0/8/70 (North side) 31/01/67 Raven House II Farmhouse. Late C17 rebuild of earlier C17 house, and with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone with ashlar dressings, quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, central ridge stack, one gable stack, and a concrete tiled roof. Central lobby-entrance plan, with double gabled rear ranges, one a staircase wing. South elevation of-2 storeys and attics, 3 bays, with gables to the outer bays. Central doorway with quoined surround and massive lintel below a drip mould. Plain plank door. Flanking the doorway are stacked 2-light chamfered mullioned windows, those to the attics within the gable apexes. All windows with drip moulds. Above attic windows, small oeil-de-bouef windows beneath drip moulds. Ball finials to the base of each gable slope, mounted on tapered finials. West elevation with stacked 2-light chamfered mullioned windows to gable of front range, and two C20 2-light glazing bar casements in the west sidewall of the western rear wing. This has an altered C17 doorway, retaining some parts of a quoined surround, and now with a C20 planked door. There is also a small C17 opening, possibly a fire window, now blocked, above which is a blocked inserted first floor doorway. Running above the fire window, and the inserted C20 casement, is a roughly dressed-back string course, formerly a C17 moulding covering doorway and window openings. The western rear wing continues at a reduced height, the result of C19 and C20 alterations, and retains a C17 two-light chamfered mullioned window between an undamaged portion of the C17 string course. The double-gabled rear elevation has staggered windows to light the stairs at landing and half-landing levels, and an attic light, 5 in total, each 2-light chamfered mullioned openings beneath drip moulds. The gable to the western range has only 2 blocked single-light attic windows, and the roof line of a lower continuation, below which the walling is rubble work. INTERIOR: exposed ceiling timbers to ground floor rooms. Remains of a moulded plaster cornice to the eastern parlour, and stone hearths to both ground floor rooms, the hall or house part with a recently added C17 timber overmantel with elaborate ornamentation. The house has a fine splat baluster staircase. Listing NGR: SK3525661172.' (3)