Estate Office With Attached Walls And Buildings

The estate office, built in 1852 and with some 20th-century alterations, was likely designed by H.E. Kendall for the Whichcote family of Aswarby Park. It is constructed of coursed and random limestone rubble, with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has Collyweston slate roofs with raised stone coped gables, hollow chamfered kneelers, and four wall stacks with moulded cornices.

The garden front is an irregular four-bay design with a plinth and cast iron lion mask guttering. The central entrance has a half-glazed door within a chamfered four-centred arched surround, recessed orders, moulded corbels, and a small vertical light to the right. Two two-light cross-mullioned windows are to the right, with a single matching three-light window to the left. Upstairs, a single top-hung sash window sits centrally, alongside a three-light mullioned window to the right. All windows have hollow chamfered stepped surrounds and casements. A canted mullioned bay window with a hipped ashlar roof extends to the left side, and a gabled bay to the right contains a four-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window above.

Inside, the estate office retains a dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and a plain slate fireplace surround with moulded corbels. A rear ashlar coped wall features a chamfered Tudor arched doorway and a segmental vehicle arch above, displaying a datestone of 1852 and the Whichcote cypher.

Adjacent to the office is a two-storey trap house with a plinth, moulded ashlar stack, raised stone coped gables, and Collyweston slate roof. It contains planked doors and a two-light mullioned window. A single-storey stable range to the right has a chamfered segmental archway with planked doors and a Tudor arched doorway. The rear (street) front has a low three-light mullioned window, a two-light window, and a low limestone rubble wall with a gateway featuring square ashlar piers with stepped pyramidal copings. A tall brick wall in English garden bond, with round brick copings, terminates in a square brick pier with pyramidal copings to the left of the trap house.