Ashdown House was originally an 18th-century country house, completed by Sussex-born Benjamin Latrobe who was later one of the architects of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and the front portico of the White House in Washington. Ashdown is a Grade II* listed building and is now a co-ed prep school. It is NOT OPEN to the public.

 

According to Coxe, the house is supposedly haunted by phantom footsteps on the stairs each 6th July.