Aycote House

A large house dated 1931, designed by Norman Jewson for I. Naylor. The house is constructed of roughly squared limestone, with ashlar stacks and a stone slate roof. It has an 'L' shape, with the main elevation facing the garden. The house is two storeys and has an attic.

The east front, which serves as the entrance front, features a central, two-storey gabled porch and a projecting gable to the right. It has stone-mullioned casement windows, some with moulded hoods, and a stone-mullioned cross window above the service stairs. The front door is within a flat-chamfered Tudor arched surround with a deep stone lintel and moulded hood, with a ventilation slit in the porch gable.

The south front, which faces the garden, is almost symmetrical with projecting gables to the left and right, and a central flat-roofed canted bay. The windows are stone-mullioned casements with transoms to the ground floor and leaded panes throughout.

Inside, the staircase has a square-framed balustrade with a moulded handrail, characteristic of Jewson's interior design. The drawing room has a high, open-beamed ceiling, a bolection-moulded fireplace, and two six-panel doors with brass fixtures reputedly from Leeds Castle. The dining room features an angled corner fireplace with a fireback initialled 'I.N.'. The service stair is styled after a Voysey design, with stick balusters from floor to ceiling. The design of the house was likely influenced by Rodmarton Manor.