| This naive early 19th century watercolour depicts the market cross and blind house with Ashton House in the background. Interestingly the 1724 Georgian facade of Ashton House is shown with seven bays and the door in bay two. At some later date, prior to Harold Brakspear's modification of 1924, the rightmost two bays must have been demolished and the door moved to bay three, creating the symmetric five bay facade that exists today, with Brakspear's single storey extension occupying the site of the lost bays. |