Aston stands at the heart of three walled terraced gardens and is a stout, early seventeenth-century limestone manor house. Broad gabled wings project forward and flank a two storeyed gabled porch to give the house an E-plan. With great clustered star-plan stacks of brick chimneys rising above the roof, the house presents itself as a robust squire’s house, framed perfectly by its early eighteenth-century urn-surmounted brick gate pillars.

The north wing of the house retains the core of the earliest part of the house, including half-timbered construction. Inside, the main staircase has flat silhouette balusters and two of the house’s rooms retain panelling.

Aston had been a possession of the Talbot family from the fifteenth century, passing on the death of Sir Humphrey Talbot (d. 1493) to his great-nephew John Grey, Viscount Lisle (d. 1504). It descended to Sir John Dudley, who sold the estate in 1529 to Sir John Alleyn who, in the next year, sold it on to John Smith, Baron of the Exchequer from 1539. Smith’s descendants also owned the Warwickshire estate of Wootton Wawen. The Smiths, later Viscounts Carington, are thought to have built Aston in circa 1665. The estate appears to have passed on the death of William Smith (d. 1758) to his great-nephew, John Wright (d. 1792), who was recorded as owner by 1787. The Wright family, like the Smiths, were Roman Catholics, and also owned the Kelvedon Hall estate in Essex, with Aston tenanted

In 1911 Edward Carington Wright sold the property, with 100 acres, to Percy Giles Holder and, within the next three years, sold a further 661 acres to him that had been held back from the initial sale. Holder meanwhile, had sold the Hall on to Major J.I. Benson of the Lutwyche (q.v.) family in 1912. Major Benson’s successor, Major D. Benson eventually sold Aston Hall in 1978, with 13 acres, to R.N. Broad who, in 1985, sold the place to Commander J.L. Skinner. Three years later, Commander Skinner sold the house to Mr and Mrs P.A.G. Cressall. The house was, once more, offered for sale with 13. acres in 2006.