Little Aston Hall

Little Aston Hall is a country house dating from the early 18th century, largely rebuilt around 1790 by James Wyatt and again in 1857-9 by Edward Payne for Colonel Swynfen Parker Jervis. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar, with rustication and vermiculation to the ground floor, and quoins. The building has a flat roof hidden behind balustraded parapets, and massive corniced ashlar side stacks. The overall design features a central block and flanking pavilions arranged in an Italianate style.

The entrance front has a three-storey central block of 2, 3, and 2 bays. The top floor contains glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds with segmental heads and balustraded aprons. The first floor has segmental pediment heads on consoles to the outer pairs of bays and semicircular shell heads to the central three bays, all containing deep mullioned and transomed casements with balustrades. The ground floor mirrors the first with mullioned and transomed windows topped with keystone heads. A single-storey, balustraded porch, almost functioning as a porte cochere, features a triglyph frieze and six columns paired at the ends, leading to a central entrance with a part-glazed door. The flanking pavilions are two storeys high (appearing almost three) and three bays wide; the first floor features round arch plate glass sashes with fretted aprons, while the ground floor has mullioned and transomed windows with keyed heads. The side and garden elevations are similar in appearance to the front, lacking the portico.

The interior has been divided into individual units and much of the original decorative scheme has been reset or removed. The entrance hall remains largely intact, retaining linenfold panelling reaching ceiling height and a strapwork plaster ceiling. The staircase has been replaced.