Aston Court

KNIGHTON ON TEME CP - SO 66 NW

4/78 Aston Court

• II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, remodelled c1860. Brick with plain tiled roofs, large external side stacks and main ridge stack. U-plan; two storeys, attic with half-dormers and cellar; pierced scalloped barge- boards; 1:2:1 bays; outer bays break forward slightly, are gabled and have giant clasping pilasters and coved capitals decorated with plaster hop garlands; above the capitals at the base of each bargeboard is a small semi-circular niche. Windows all have rusticated voussoirs with large moulded keyblocks. Central bays have a ground floor 16-pane sash, two first floor 12-pane sashes and two gabled half-dormers with 9-pane sashes; the roof between the half-dormers is supported on a coved corbel enriched with a plaster garland; main entrance to left has engaged Doric columns, an open pediment on large festooned consoles, a C19 panelled door with moulded architrave, plain fanlight and plaster decoration in spandrels. Left outer bay has a ground floor tripartite window with central 8-pane sash, a first floor 16-pane sash and a 9-pane attic light. Right outer bay has a ground and first floor tripartite window similar to those in the left outer bay. Interior: central hall has richly moulded coffered C19 ceiling and dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and large turned newels. Room to front right has ornate C19 ceiling mouldings with painted foliated frieze, concave lozenge and square panels and a large foilated ceiling rose. Original moulded ceiling beams evident to rear left of house. A drawing showing the house before its C19 remodelling was in possession of the owner at the time of resurvey (April 1985).

Listing NGR: SO6206469272