Aberford House Including Front Garden Wall With Gatepiers And Inner Paved Parterre With Steps

Aberford House, dating from the 18th century, features a front garden wall with gatepiers and a paved parterre. The house is constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar and has a roof made of graduated stone slates. It has an L-shaped plan with three structural bays and a short rear wing attached to the first bay, along with a service extension at the left end.

In a classical style, the building stands two storeys tall and has five first-floor windows arranged symmetrically. It showcases rusticated quoins, a ground-floor sill band, a modillioned cornice, and a partly balustraded parapet. There are two doorways flanking the middle bay, each featuring a panelled door, a rectangular three-pane fanlight, and a pedimented architrave with consoles. The ground floor has two windows in each bay, while the first floor has five windows, all with plain architraves. Most windows are 12-pane sashes, except for the ground floor windows of the first bay, which are inverted sashes with six panes in the lower leaf and nine in the upper, and the window above the left-hand door, which is blind. The parapet balustrades align with the first-floor windows.

The hipped roof has a ridge chimney at the junction of the first and second bays, along with end-wall chimneys. The lower two-storey service extension, slightly set back at the left end, has small windows, while a single-storey wing at the right-hand end features a small square window. At the rear, the wing to the first bay forms a two-storey canted bay with sashed windows. There is a doorway and stairlight at the junction of the second and third bays, with two 12-pane sashes on each floor. The service extension includes a Venetian window that once served the kitchen.

The front garden wall, made of dressed stone, runs the full width of the house and features banded gatepiers. The inner paved parterre includes eight broad steps leading up to the house.