Description

NAUNTON AYLESWORTH SP 12 SW 5/55 Aylesworth House -

GV II Smart farmhouse. c.1700 extended in c1800, doubling its site. Coursed and squared rubble with hipped plain tile rubble. Originally shallow U-plan house with large chimney-stack projecting to ends of each of the parallel ranges capped with ashlar shafts; SW chimneys engulfed in C19 extension which made the house square in plan. 3 storeys. Road front unusual; central arched doorway in moulded surround, 1 range of keyed bulls-eye windows over (different in position, size and ornament). The flanking chimneys have paired square shafts and moulded capping. Return wings have hollow-chamfer mullioned window in older parts; 1 range to SE, transomed on 1st floor, modern doorway on ground floor and late C19 bay to right; 2 ranges to NW, 2 and 3-light, with Tudor-arch doorway between. The SW front (later) is 3 windows wide, the outer in arched recesses on ground and 1st floors for tripartite windows, plate-glass sashes; cill bands to 1st and 2nd floors; central arched doorway with long brackets to pediment, curved foliate brackets flanking threshold. Interior: inner door on NW front with double-ogee mouldings. Large earthworks to west may indicate a garden layout of the C18 or earlier. The Aylesworth family were important in local politics during the Civil War period.

Listing NGR: SP1089921977

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