HIGH TREES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151919
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH TREES, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH TREES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston cum Aughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK4676785270
Details
ASTON-CUM-AUGHTON CHURCH LANE
SK48NE
(west side),
Aston
6/6 High Trees
29.3.68
GV II
Rectory, unoccupied at time of resurvey. Part of older rectory-used as
service wing to new house of c1771 by John Carr for Rev. William Mason.
Stuccoed red brick, Westmorland and Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 bay
house of 1771 with 2 x 2 bay service wing set back on left having lower
addition to rear-left corner. Main house: plinth. Central C19 porch with
double doors flanked by corner pilasters with acanthus capitals, frieze with
panels and keystone, modillioned cornice with blocking course. Boarded,
ground-floor windows linked by sill band, bay 1 window has rubbed-brick flat
arch visible beneath stucco. 1st floor: unequally-hung 9-pane sashes with
projecting sills and architraves set in reveals. Modillioned eaves cornice;
hipped roof with brick end stacks. Service wing on left: door flanked by
boarded sashes with glazing bars; 9-pane sashes to 1st floor. Modillioned
eaves with front stack on left of bay 2; hipped roof with ridge stack. Lower
addition set back on left has boarded window to ground floor and transomed
casement above, hipped lean-to roof.
Interior: not inspected, previous list description notes chimneypieces and
cupboards.
William Mason was rector of the parish, poet, musician, painter, playwright,
garden designer and friend of Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray whose biography
he wrote. Other works included The English Garden and his Heroic Epistle, an
attack on the architecture of Sir William Chambers.
Listing NGR: SK4660484938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
