Aylings

Aylings is a house, now divided into two separate dwellings, dating from the 18th century, with later 19th-century extensions to the rear. The front wall is of colourwashed brickwork, featuring blue headers and red quoins, with cambered arches, a first-floor band, and a Flemish bond with blue headers below the ground-floor cill level. The lower portion of the walls are of stretcher bond, and the front gable is tile hung. The roof is tiled.

The north-east front is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys and an attic, with three windows and a gable on the east side. There is a single-storey outshot to the west, and a two-storey wing set back on the east. The windows are late 18th-century leaded casements. A central boarded door, contained within a plain frame, serves No. 1, with a similar doorway in the wing leading to No. 2. According to local records, the house is named after Lieutenant Aylings, who served in the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1797. It is also documented that the building served as the first post office in the area in 1840.