Aspenden Hall

Aspenden Hall is a country house, now used for housing grain dryers, built in 1856 to replace a Jacobean house for the 2nd Sir Henry Lushington. The building was gutted around 1963 for farm use. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a low pitched roof that is concealed by parapets. The house is large and rectangular, two storeys high with seven windows, designed in a classical Doric style. The east front features channelled pilasters and a pedimented central feature, along with a pedimented porch supported by twinned Doric columns. The windows are generally plate glass sash, with French windows on the ground floor of the west (garden) front. There is a moulded base, a string course, and eaves to the parapet that break forward around the pilasters on all sides of the house. A single storey pedimented conservatory is located in the middle of the south end. The service wing at the north has been demolished. Aspenden Hall is an important landscape feature and contributes to the setting of the parish church.