Aylesworth House

Aylesworth House is a smart farmhouse built around 1700 and extended around 1800, which doubled its size. The building is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with a hipped plain tile roof. Originally, it was designed in a shallow U-shape, featuring large chimney stacks that project from the ends of each of the parallel ranges, topped with ashlar shafts. The southwest chimneys were incorporated into a 19th-century extension that transformed the house into a square plan.

The house has three storeys, and its road-facing front is distinctive, featuring a central arched doorway with a moulded surround. Above this doorway, there is a range of keyed bulls-eye windows that vary in position, size, and ornamentation. The flanking chimneys have paired square shafts with moulded capping. The return wings display hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in the older sections; on the southeast side, there is one range with a transomed window on the first floor, a modern doorway on the ground floor, and a late 19th-century bay window to the right. The northwest side has two ranges of two and three-light windows, with a Tudor-arch doorway in between.

The southwest front, which is a later addition, has three windows, with the outer windows set in arched recesses on both the ground and first floors, featuring tripartite windows with plate-glass sashes. There are cill bands on the first and second floors, and a central arched doorway with long brackets supporting a pediment, flanked by curved foliate brackets at the threshold. Inside, there is an inner door on the northwest front with double-ogee mouldings. Large earthworks to the west may suggest a garden layout from the 18th century or earlier. The Aylesworth family played a significant role in local politics during the Civil War period.