Wing of Former Aston Old Hall Now Gamekeeper's Cottage and Store is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1985. Cottage, store.
Wing of Former Aston Old Hall Now Gamekeeper's Cottage and Store
- WRENN ID
- far-bonework-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage, store
- Address
- Wing of Former Aston Old Hall Now Gamekeeper's Cottage and Store, Aston Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 552 780
- Coordinates
- 53.29754, -2.67243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a gamekeeper's cottage and store, which is a former wing of Aston Old Hall, altered in the late 16th century. It features pebbledash above a rendered brick flush plinth, with indications of an oak-framed structure beneath the pebbledash. The roof is made of graded grey slate, which was previously thatched. The cottage is two storeys high with four windows. It has a round-arched central opening and two doorways with boarded doors, one of which appears to be old, featuring broad boards on shaped wrought iron hinges. There are seven small-pane horizontally sliding sash windows and one replaced three-pane casement window. The left structural bay has a longer span than the others. Each gable end has a curved surface that is out of plumb, suggesting a warped oak frame beneath the pebbledash. The right gable is jettied above an oriel window that is now concealed in pebbledash. A watercolour in the Aston papers at Aston Lodge depicts Aston Old Hall with Elizabethan framing that includes the current gamekeeper's house and a main wing connecting it to the Dovecote.
Local climate
Wing of Former Aston Old Hall Now Gamekeeper's Cottage and Store receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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