Ashbridge Estate, Ontario Heritage Trust property in Leslieville, Toronto, Canada.

Ashbridge Estate is a red-brick house begun in 1854 for Jesse Ashbridge, designed by Joseph Sheard in the Regency style with Flemish-bond brickwork, a hipped roof and a treillage veranda. A Second Empire second storey with a mansard roof was added in 1900, and a two-storey addition to the north wall in 1920. It stands on a two-acre remnant of the original 600-acre grant.

Sarah Ashbridge, a Quaker widow from Chester County, Pennsylvania, reached Upper Canada in 1793 with her sons John and Jonathan. The family began clearing land east of the Don River in 1794 and received a 600-acre grant in 1796. Jesse Ashbridge built the present Regency-style house from 1854, with a Second Empire storey added in 1900 and a north wing in 1920.

The estate takes its name from the Ashbridge family, English Quakers who made this their home. Walking through the rooms, you can see household objects that belonged to different family generations and hint at how they lived day to day.

The estate is on the north side of Queen Street East, just west of Greenwood Avenue, in Leslieville. The house is set back from the street behind a lawn and trees, with the entrance facing Queen Street. The grounds are open for self-guided walks; the house itself is not regularly open to the public, so check ahead for open-house days.

Excavations conducted between 1987 and 2000 revealed artifacts from late 18th-century settlement and much earlier Indigenous presence on the grounds. This discovery shows the land had been occupied and used for centuries before the Ashbridge family arrived.