Aston Hall
ASTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264548
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Aston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ASTON HALL
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- 2007-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/16849/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264548
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Aston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASTON HALL
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:
- ASTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5319328719
Details
WEM RURAL C.P. ASTON
SJ 52 NW
11/124 Aston Hall
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28.10.60
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16 with later additions and alterations. Timber
framed with painted brick infill and additions; plain tile roof. L-plan
with gable projecting to right. 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Framing:
mainly close studding with middle rail and curving tension braces.
Gable of cross-wing jettied to first floor and attic (underbuilt in
brick to ground floor) with moulded bressumer to first floor; first
floor has 3 tiers of square panels with quatrefoil decoration flanking
central area of close studding with position of 6-light mullioned and
transomed window above; twisted corner shafts and carved brackets supporting
attic jetty; right side also has twisted shafts and herringbone decoration,
which is also present to rear, flanking position of 4-light mullion
window below tie beam; painted decoration above tie beam. Irregular
fenestration, late C19 and C20 casements, 2 on first floor of hall
range with one below to left; C20 bay window to ground floor of cross-
wing and small window to attic; C19 mullioned and transomed window
to first floor on left side. Entrance to far right of hall range in
angle with cross-wing, C20 panelled door in plain C19 doorcase. Cross-
wing has red brick ridge stack with triple rebated shafts of star section
at junction with hall range; this has painted brick external end stack
to left with top rebuilt in late C20 brown brick. C19 painted brick
lean-tos to right side of cross-wing and to rear and left gable end
of hall range. Timber framed gabled dormer in roof slope of hall range
to rear. Interior: deep-chamfered ceiling beams throughout to ground-
and first-floor rooms with dragon beams for first-floor jetty to front
room of cross-wing. Back room has C17 rectangular oak panelling and
inset wall cupboards with H-hinges. Fragment of timber frame with
segmental-headed doorway exposed to first floor of cross-wing and oak
winder staircase (replaced by C19 staircase between ground and first
floors) continues to attic. Cross-wing has double-purlin roof in 3
short bays with collar and tie beam trusses and straight windbraces;
similar roof in 2 wide bays to hall range. B.O.E., p.65.
Listing NGR: SJ5319328719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 65
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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