Grand Houses
Westbury House
The house was built as part of the Page's Brewery site. It was called Daw's House in 1877.
Ratcliffe House, High Street
Bult as a girls school in 1841 the brick face was added in 1878 when it was converted to a house.
Rear of Ratcliffe House
Typical appearance of rendered clay bat walls
Cliff House, Kingsland Way
Built in 1873 in a former chalk pit
Surprisingly the use of clay bats was not confined to houses of the lower social status and a few examples still survive in Ashwell.
Built as a school in 1841 Ratcliffe House by Baileys, the Ashwell building firm, whose account books provide us with the first documentary evidence of the use of clay bats in Ashwell.
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