The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HADLOW ASHES LANE TQ 65 SW 3/4 North Frith Farmhouse
GV II
Farm manager's house. Circa 1856. English bond brick including a great number of burnt headers which gives a banded appearance; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with a couple of original cream-coloured octagonal chimneypots; pantile roof.
Plan: Double-depth plan house facing south with a front and back room either side of central entrance lobby and main staircase. Service rooms are those to rear with the kitchen to left (west) having a projecting rear end stack. The principal rooms are to the front, the left one with an axial stack, the right one with a gable-end stack. 2 storeys.
Exterior: Symmetrical 3-window front of mostly horned 12-pane sashes with central first floor 9-pane sash. Central doorway contains a part-glazed 4- panel door with overlight behind a gabled brick porch with Tudor outer arch. The two front gables have wavey bargeboard and main roof is gable-ended. The side walls continue in the same style. There are a few C20 casements on the right (east) end and on the back.
Interior: Contains original joinery detail.
This farm manager's house was built with the adjoining farm buildings (q.v.) and oast(q.v.) as an attractive model farm.
Listing NGR: TQ6122150495

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.