Aston Hall

WEM RURAL C.P. ASTON SJ 52 NW 11/124 Aston Hall - 28.10.60 - II

Farmhouse. Late C16 with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick infill and additions; plain tile roof. L-plan with gable projecting to right. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Framing: mainly close studding with middle rail and curving tension braces. Gable of cross-wing jettied to first floor and attic (underbuilt in brick to ground floor) with moulded bressumer to first floor; first floor has 3 tiers of square panels with quatrefoil decoration flanking central area of close studding with position of 6-light mullioned and transomed window above; twisted corner shafts and carved brackets supporting attic jetty; right side also has twisted shafts and herringbone decoration, which is also present to rear, flanking position of 4-light mullion window below tie beam; painted decoration above tie beam. Irregular fenestration, late C19 and C20 casements, 2 on first floor of hall range with one below to left; C20 bay window to ground floor of cross- wing and small window to attic; C19 mullioned and transomed window to first floor on left side. Entrance to far right of hall range in angle with cross-wing, C20 panelled door in plain C19 doorcase. Cross- wing has red brick ridge stack with triple rebated shafts of star section at junction with hall range; this has painted brick external end stack to left with top rebuilt in late C20 brown brick. C19 painted brick lean-tos to right side of cross-wing and to rear and left gable end of hall range. Timber framed gabled dormer in roof slope of hall range to rear. Interior: deep-chamfered ceiling beams throughout to ground- and first-floor rooms with dragon beams for first-floor jetty to front room of cross-wing. Back room has C17 rectangular oak panelling and inset wall cupboards with H-hinges. Fragment of timber frame with segmental-headed doorway exposed to first floor of cross-wing and oak winder staircase (replaced by C19 staircase between ground and first floors) continues to attic. Cross-wing has double-purlin roof in 3 short bays with collar and tie beam trusses and straight windbraces; similar roof in 2 wide bays to hall range. B.O.E., p.65.

Listing NGR: SJ5319328719