Home Farmhouse

SP42NE MIDDLE ASTON 5/265 Home Farmhouse 08/12/55

GV II Farmhouse. Late C17, extended C19 and altered C20. Mixed limestone and marlstone rubble with some limestone-ashlar dressings; Cotswold-slate roof with stone-and-brick slacks. 3-unit plan, extended. 2 storeys plus attic. 3-window garden front, with a C19 bay to right containing a secondary doorway, has a gabled stair projection between bays 2 and 3 containing the inserted main dourway; projection retains a 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned window and has an ornamental sundial in the gable. Flanking it at ground floor are 3-light windows: to right with a label mould over a C20 casement; to left an unusual 3-light stone-mullioned window, the label arching over a fluted segmental tympanum to the middle light. Windows in bay one and at first floor are C20. Steep-pitched roof has stacks to left of bays one and 3, both with stone plinths, and has a C20 roof dormer. Front is largely obscured by two small C19 extensions. Interior: stop-chamfered spine beam; inglenook fireplace with stop-chamfered bressumer. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p25; R. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, p263)

Listing NGR: SP4760827062