SNN110559 - A Level 2 Historic Building Survey of Green Farmhouse and attached cart shed, Ashton, Northamptonshire, 2016

University of Leicester Archaeological Services undertook a Level 2 Historic Building Record of the farmhouse and attached cart shed at Green Farm, Ashton, Northamptonshire, in January 2016. The house is a grade 2 listed building and is within Ashton Conservation Area. The survey, combined with cartographic evidence, was able to establish that the house was built in the eighteenth century and then was extended and refurbished in the second half of the nineteenth century, mainly after the Ashton Estate became the property of Lionel Rothschild in 1860. During the late nineteenth century a cart shed was added to the farmhouse. The farmhouse and its attached cart shed were among the few historic buildings in Ashton that were retained in their existing form when William Huckvale designed a model village there for Charles Rothschild c1900. Planning permission has been given for the conversion to domestic accommodation of the cart house and a linking range between cart shed and house, and for minor alterations to the interior of the house.