Building record 1194/1 - Aston Park, Eighteenth Century House

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Aston Park, Grade II*, Listing description: House. 1715. Red Flemish and English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. Symmetrical West front of 5 bays. Central arched doorcase with semi-circular hood on consoles. Two 3 x 6 pane sash windows to either side at ground floor level with stone cills and lintels. 5 similar windows to first floor. Diapering in heart and diamond patterns between first floor windows. Entablature of wood. 3 gabled attic windows of 2 x 3 pane sashes. Moulded, dated, lead rainwater heads and downpipes. South front has two 3 x 4 pane sash windows to ground floor with similar to first floor with one 4 x 3 pane casement. 3rd floor central roundel to attic. C20 extension to right. North side: blocked cambered headed windows. Interior: Central wide spinal corridor to both floors with two 15 feet square rooms to either side on both floors. 8 panel doors to to ground floor rooms with bolection moulded doorcases with cavetto over. Similarly moulded fireplaces. Open well staircase with twist balusters and panelled newels with moulded drops. Further, spiral staircase to north of principal staircase.

<2> Peter de Figueiredo (Independent Consultant), 2017, Aston Park Farm, Great Budworth, Cheshire. Heritage Statement (Client Report). SCH8231.

A heritage assessment was undertaken in 2017 at Aston Park Farm in support of an application for change of use and alterations to a group of three, redundant farm buildings to create further residential accommodation. These farm buildings date to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were originally associated with Aston Park House. Aston Park was formerly part of the Arley estate, which has been in the ownership of the Warburton family since 1200. Aston Hall is dated 1715 and was built by the Warburton family, possibly as a dower house. It was occupied by the Warburton family between 1755 and 1763, while their ancestral home Arley Hall was being modernised. In 1846, the tithe apportionments record that the owner of Aston Park was Rowland Egerton Warburton and the tenant, Peter Carter. During the 20th century, the Aston Park estate was sold by the Warburton family and the house and its farm buildings were separated. In recent years the house fell into disrepair, but it is currently being restored by a new owner. Although the farm buildings that are the subject of the application are now in separate ownership from the listed building, they are considered to be within its historic curtilage, and are therefore listed by association. See HER 1194/2 for further detail on the farm buildings discussed in the heritage assessment.