Aston Court

Aston Court is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier and was remodeled around 1860. It is constructed of brick and features plain tiled roofs, large external side stacks, and a main ridge stack. The building is arranged in a U-plan and has two storeys, an attic with half-dormers, and a cellar. The exterior includes pierced scalloped bargeboards and is divided into 1:2:1 bays, with the outer bays slightly projecting forward, gabled, and adorned with giant clasping pilasters and coved capitals decorated with plaster hop garlands. Above the capitals, at the base of each bargeboard, there are small semi-circular niches. The windows are characterized by rusticated voussoirs and large moulded keyblocks.

The central bays feature a ground floor 16-pane sash window, two first floor 12-pane sashes, and two gabled half-dormers with 9-pane sashes. The roof between the half-dormers is supported by a coved corbel enriched with a plaster garland. The main entrance, located to the left, is framed by engaged Doric columns and an open pediment supported by large festooned consoles. It includes a 19th-century panelled door with a moulded architrave, a plain fanlight, and plaster decoration in the spandrels. The left outer bay has a ground floor tripartite window with a central 8-pane sash, a first floor 16-pane sash, and a 9-pane attic light. The right outer bay mirrors this arrangement with similar tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors.

Inside, the central hall features a richly moulded coffered ceiling from the 19th century and a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and large turned newels. The room to the front right boasts ornate 19th-century ceiling mouldings, a painted foliated frieze, concave lozenge and square panels, and a large foliated ceiling rose. Original moulded ceiling beams can be seen in the rear left of the house. A drawing showing the house before its 19th-century remodeling was in the possession of the owner at the time of resurvey in April 1985.