High Trees

High Trees is a rectory located on Church Lane in Aston, dating from around 1771. It was designed by John Carr for Rev. William Mason and is currently unoccupied. The building features stuccoed red brick and roofs made of Westmorland and Welsh slate. It has two storeys and consists of a main house with three bays and a service wing with two bays set back on the left, which has a lower addition at the rear-left corner.

The main house has a plinth and a central 19th-century porch with double doors, flanked by corner pilasters that have acanthus capitals. The porch also features a frieze with panels and a keystone, along with a modillioned cornice and blocking course. The ground-floor windows are boarded and linked by a sill band, with the first bay window showing a rubbed-brick flat arch beneath the stucco. On the first floor, there are unequally-hung 9-pane sash windows with projecting sills and architraves set in reveals. The building has a modillioned eaves cornice and a hipped roof with brick end stacks.

The service wing on the left has a door flanked by boarded sash windows with glazing bars, and 9-pane sashes on the first floor. It features a modillioned eaves cornice and a front stack on the left of the second bay, along with a hipped roof that has a ridge stack. The lower addition set back on the left has a boarded window on the ground floor and a transomed casement above, topped with a hipped lean-to roof.

The interior has not been inspected, but a previous description notes the presence of chimneypieces and cupboards. Rev. William Mason, who was the rector of the parish, was also a poet, musician, painter, playwright, garden designer, and a friend of Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray, whose biography he wrote. His other works include "The English Garden" and "Heroic Epistle," which critiques the architecture of Sir William Chambers.