Ash Lawn-Highland Architecture Analysis

Ash Lawn-Highland presents a typical Colonial, Georgian style façade that presents a red brick foundation, which runs along the structure’s base turning into fieldstone along the west wing. Attached to a stone stylobate, a single brick step runs half the length of the porch. Adjoining the stylobate are two wooden plinths, which support Tuscan columns. The Tuscan columns sustain the full weight of the portico’s pediment. Full-length wooden floorboards make up the remaining area of the porch, which flanks the stylobate. The portico’s interior consists of a molded trim doorframe that contains a green painted half glass and one-panel wooden door.
The three windows of Ash Lawn-Highland’s façade are six-over-six double-hung sash windows assembled upon wooden-clad walls. The window’s interior frames consist of hand-blown glass and molded trim. On each side of the double-sash windows, are green painted louvered wooden shutters. Flanking the pediment on the west wing of the structure are decorative verge boards with a metal gutter that runs the full length of the building. The structure’s shingles have two distinct configurations that include a styled pattern format on the structure’s original portion and a rectangular style format on the west wing addition. The structure’s façade features three red …show more content…
The side of the structure consists of white paneled clapboard and two nine-over-nine double-hung sash windows. Like the windows on the structure’s façade, the two windows positioned on the side include molded trim and hand-blown glass, with green wooden louvered shutters flanking both sides of the window. Attached to the side is a pediment with fascia moldings on its exterior and interior sides, which stems from the back porch of the structure’s façade. Along the roof’s sides is a frieze, which connects to a fascia molding that runs the length of the