Little Aston Hall
LITTLE ASTON HALL, ALDRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038855
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Little Aston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE ASTON HALL, ALDRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038855
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Little Aston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE ASTON HALL, ALDRIDGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE ASTON HALL, ALDRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shenstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 08743 00424
Details
SK 00 SE SHENSTONE C.P. ALDRIDGE ROAD (south side) Little Aston
8/47 Little Aston Hall 29.10.75 - II
Country house. Early C18, rebuilt c.1790 by James Wyatt and 1857-9 by Edward Payne for Colonel Swynfen Parker Jervis. Sandstone ashlar rusticated and vermiculated to ground floor and quoins; flat roof on cornice invisible behind balustraded parapets; massive corniced ashlar side stacks. Large plan of central block and flanking pavilions in an Italianate style. Entrance front: centre block of 3 storeys and 2,3,2 bays; top floor has glazing bar sashes in moulded surrounds with segmental heads and balustraded aprons; first floor has segmental pediment heads on consoles to outer pairs of bays and semicircular shell heads to centre trio, all with deep mullioned and transomed casements and balustered aprons; ground floor again with mullioned and transomed windows with keystone heads. Central single-storey, balustraded porch (almost a porte cochere) with triglyph frieze and 6 columns to front, paired at extremities; central entrance with part-glazed door. Flanking pavilions of two storeys (almost to height of three) and three bays; round arch plate glass sashes to first floor with fretted aprons; ground floor mullioned and transomed windows with keyed heads. Plain side elevations and garden elevation of very similar appearance to entrance side but without the portico. Interior: the building is now divided into individual units and much of the elaborate decorative scheme reset or removed. The entrance hall remains intact with linenfold panelling up to ceiling level and strapwork plaster ceiling. The staircase has been replaced. S. Shaw, History of Staffordshire, ii, 1801, p.52 with engraving; H. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, London, 1978, p.949; B.O.E., p.196 , pl.89.
Listing NGR: SK0874300424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 949
Shaw, S, History of Staffordshire, (1801), 52
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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