Aston Bury
| Aston Bury | |
| Hertfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Aston Bury Manor house | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL27582167 |
| Location: | 51°52’44"N, 0°8’53"W |
| Village: | Aston |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to flats |
Aston Bury is a manor house near Aston, Hertfordshire. It is Grade I listed building.[1]
The house was built in the mid-17th century, possibly by the Boteler family, restored in 1883 for Captain William Edward Freeman O'Brien and then restored again in 1908-09 for Vernon A. Malcolmson. The house is now a luxury apartment block.
The building consists of a long rectangular block in two storeys with cellars and attics and two large gabled stair wings at the rear. The ground floor walls are made of flint, banded with brick and with brick dressings. The first floor has timber framing, infilled and faced with brick. The roof is steep and made of red tiles.[2]
History
Aston Bury manor belonged to the monks of St Mary, Reading when it was seized by the Crown at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and leased to Sir Philip Boteler of Watton-at-Stone, who served as Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1533 and in 1540. The manor then descended in the Boteler family until John Palmer Boteler sold it to Sir Thomas Rumbold.
The house then passed through various hands to Captain William Edward Freeman O'Brien, who sold it in 1907 to Mr. Vernon A. Malcolmson.[3] Malcolmson died in 1948 and his son sold the house to Paul Petrocokino (a leading member of the 'Moral Re-Armament' movement).
In 1973 Hertfordshire County Council began converting the house to a teacher training centre but after the scheme was abandoned it was converted instead (in 1989) into eleven luxury apartments.[4]
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1174988: Aston Bury Manor
- ↑ [1] – A History of the County of Hertford - Volume 3 : {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
- ↑ {{brithist|43579|A History of the County of Hertford - Volume 3 : {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
- ↑ "ASTON Herts Local History". http://astonvillage.tripod.com/astonvillage/id2.html. Retrieved 23 October 2014.