Little Aston

Little Aston Lodge is a building from the early 19th century, constructed of painted brick. It features a hipped roof that was likely originally thatched but is now clad in blue fishscale tiles, with lead rolls along the hips and ridge. The lodge has a central axial stack with narrow shafts on either side.

This rectangular cottage orne has a central lobby entrance, with a double-depth room on the left and a kitchen on the right, which includes a small service room behind it. There is a 20th-century extension at the rear left.

The lodge is a single storey with a three-bay front. The roof extends over deep eaves at the front and has a verandah at the sides and rear, supported by round wooden columns with scalloped cushion capitals. The corner columns feature clustered shafts. A similar design of clustered columns with cushion capitals supports the gabled porch at the center of the front, which was likely originally open but has been boarded in, featuring a tiled gable and a plank door. To the left and right of the porch are 19th-century moulded wooden mullion-transom windows, with the center light fitted with a metal casement. There is a larger three-light casement window on the right side and a French casement window on the left, both with roof lights above. A large 20th-century weatherboarded extension is located at the rear.

Inside, the kitchen on the right has a brick fireplace with an iron range, a mantel shelf, and tall narrow cupboards on either side. The left-hand room features a smaller fireplace with an iron grate. The 19th-century joinery includes panelled doors and cupboard doors.

This lodge was likely associated with Little Aston Hall, an early 18th-century house that was remodeled in 1790 by James Wyatt and again in 1857-1859 by Edward J Payne of Birmingham for Colonel Swynfen Parker-Jarvis.