Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/09/2012

TL 2722
12/14

ASTON
Aston village
BENINGTON ROAD
(south side)
Nos 43 and 45

GV
II*

House, now 2 houses. Mid to late C16, fittings of C17 and early C18, subsequently
divided. Timber frame on painted brick sill, plastered with a steep old red tile
roof. A 2-storeys and attics, 2-cell, central chimney, originally lobby entrance
plan house facing W. 2 wide bays with a narrow central chimney bay. Only S room
heated on upper floor. Symmetrical front now has 2 2-storeys shallow rectangular
bay windows, a small central upper window, and 2 4-panel doors beside the bay
windows. Slated and plastered lean-to on LH (N) end with weatherboarding on gable.
Cruciform central chimney plastered. Interior has axial beams, bolection moulded
fire surround on 1st floor S room and 2 early C18 surrounds on ground floor.
Clasped purlin roof has butt purlins for dormer window over the bays. Straight
wind braces in rear slope. Unheated first floor north chamber has a painted
scheme of the early C17, agreeable with dated examples elsewhere in Hertfordshire
of 1605, 4 painted walls with elaborate Jacobean Strapwork panelling, with stiles,
rails, arabesques and diamonds, colours of yellow, dark red, pale red and black
outline. An upper frieze with partly decipherable sententious or pious texts,
perhaps from a common source book with those at Pirton Grange, Hertfordshire.
Included at Grade II* as a perhaps complete decorative scheme in an otherwise
modern house.

Listing NGR: TL2754022722

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553705

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)