Aston House and Dalton House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1951. House.

Aston House and Dalton House

WRENN ID
lost-gargoyle-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1951
Type
House
Address
Aston House and Dalton House, 26, Station Street, Swaffham
OS grid reference
TF 819 092
Coordinates
52.6501, 0.68842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Aston House (No.24) and Dalton House (No.26) are two houses that were originally one building, dating from the mid-17th century. They were raised and refronted around 1830 and later subdivided in the 20th century. The structure is built of flint and brick, featuring a red brick facade and a pantiled roof.

The exterior has three storeys with a six-window range. The third bay from the left has 20th-century glazed double doors. The ground and first floors have 6/6 unhorned sash windows with gauged skewback arches, while the attic features 3/3 unhorned sashes. There is a modillion eaves cornice and a gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks on both the north and south sides. An additional side bay was added to the south end in the late 19th century, which contains a doorway with a recessed half-glazed door set within a reeded doorcase. The north gable, dating from the mid-17th century, is made of cut flint and decorated with brick diaper patterns. To the west of this gable is a stuccoed two-storey addition that includes a recessed six-panelled door, with the upper four panels being glazed, and a 3/6 unhorned sash window on the first floor. The rear of the building features a two-storey and dormer attic extension from around 1830, with a curved bay window on the first floor fitted with horned sashes, displaying glazing bars arranged as 4/1 on the sides and 6/6 in the centre.

Inside No.24, there are six-panelled doors, a 20th-century chimneypiece in the main east room, and deep plaster cornices in the same room. A 20th-century cast-iron staircase is also present. In No.26, the principal staircase from around 1830 features stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The upper stairwell is adorned with six 19th-century plaster panels depicting the Stations of the Cross, along with three larger panels featuring allegorical figurative scenes. The roof includes principals and two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins.

Local climate

Aston House and Dalton House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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