Beehive Cottage

Beehive Cottage is a house located in Aston village, dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame set on a black stucco plinth, with plastered walls that have scratched decoration. The main house has a steep old red tile roof, while a lower west extension has a thatched roof. The building is two storeys tall with attics and follows a two-cell, central-chimney, lobby-entry plan, facing south. The west extension has one and a half storeys and contains a single large room with a gallery at the eastern end, beneath the raised part of the roof, and an internal gable chimney from the 19th century. The entrance has been relocated to the beginning of the extension. The main house features two flush casement windows with two and three lights on each floor, along with a window where the former central doorway was located. The west part has two small windows and a gabled dormer, which has '1609' painted above a two-light casement window.