Aston_Eyre_Hall

Aston Eyre Hall

Aston Eyre Hall

Manor house in Aston Eyre, United Kingdom


Aston Eyre Hall is an unfortified stone manor house at Aston Eyre near Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire, United Kingdom. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]

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History

Aston Eyre Hall was built in the mid-14th century, probably for Alan de Charlton, who acquired the estate by marriage to Margery FitzAer and died in 1349.

It consists of a hall range, with a service wing to the south-west and a parlour cross-wing to the north, and a detached gatehouse to the east, across what would have been an unusually large entrance court. The gatehouse has been incorporated into a farmhouse, but tree-ring dendrochronology dating of the surviving timber floors have suggested a felling date of 1341–52. A large timber-framed barn enclosing the courtyard on the north has been similarly dated to 1613.

The hall dais was originally lit from a large window bay, which has been demolished although traces remain. There must have been a central hearth in the hall. Both the parlour wing and the south range had heated upper chambers. The narrow extension of the south range has several slit windows for storerooms, and excavations have revealed the footings of an equally narrow west range, no doubt also used for storage.

The manor was the subject of a season 5 episode of the Channel 4 series Time Team. Filmed between 27 and 29 June 1997, the team attempted to uncover and decode the history and development of the site.[2]


References

  1. Historic England. "HALL FARM HOUSE (1176744)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. "1998 - 06 - Aston Eyre, Shropshire". Unofficial Time Team Site. Retrieved 17 August 2008.

J. Newman & Sir N. Pevsner, The buildings of England: Shropshire, 2nd edn., 2006, pp. 122–123 M. Wood, The English medieval house, 1965, pp. 77–8, 104, 110, 132, 133 (plan), 334

52.5430°N 2.5123°W / 52.5430; -2.5123


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