Description

ASTON-CUM-AUGHTON CHURCH LANE SK48NE (east side), Aston 6/5 East Wing, Coach House 29.3.65 and West Wing, Aughton Court (formerly listed as Aston Hall Stables (Aughton Court) Hospital) GV II Coach-house and stable-block now 3 dwellings. Dated 'HV/1826'. For Harry Verelst of Aston Hall. Coursed, squared, dressed red sandstone, Westmorland slate roofs. U-shaped courtyard plan with central coach-house linked by screen walls to flanking stable wings. Coach House: 2 storeys, 1:3:1 bays. Plinth, chamfered quoins. Recessed central bays have ashlar piers to glazed, segmentally-arched carriage openings with triple keystones, the central keystone with initals and date. Architraved door to bay 1; architraved 20- pane sash to bay 5. 1st floor: short 10-pane sash in architrave to each bay. Eaves cornice, hipped roof. Rear: channel-rusticated quoin strips; 9 segmentally-arched recesses at foot of wall beneath architraved window openings; architraved doors to each end bay; cornice with ashlar blocking course and central corniced stack flanked by scrolled brackets. East Wing, linked to left of Coach house by corniced wall with door and glazed segmental arch: 2 storeys, 5 bays. Ashlar plinth, chamfered quoins. Renewed, central, panelled door in architrave flanked by renewed 20-pane sashes in architraves; short architraved 10-pane sash to each bay on upper floor. Eaves cornice to hipped roof with corniced ashlar stack above bay 2. West Wing: as East Wing but much rebuilt on right including renewal of architraves in concrete; some quoins on right formed in flush brickwork; stack removed. Link wall to Coach House as on its left but without door or glazing to openings.

Listing NGR: SK4680085194

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