Little Aston Hall

Little Aston Hall, in Little Aston, Staffordshire, England, was constructed around 1730 by Richard Scott of Great Barr, in a Georgian style with a park and lake. The house was restyled by architect James Wyatt for William Tennant in the early 19th century and was enlarged and improved at a reputed cost of £35000 in 1857 by Edward Swynfen Parker Jervis, son of Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent, and great great nephew of Admiral John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent, the naval hero of the 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent.

From the early 20th century the hall had a number of owners and in 1925 the estate of over 1500 acres was broken up when the hall was sold to Harry Scribbans with only 118 acres — the remaining land was sold by auction piecemeal. Unoccupied from 1950 the house became the Midlands regional headquarters of Esso in 1954. From 1968 it served as a residential centre for GKN. In 1984 the site was redeveloped, the hall was converted into seven superior residential apartments; seven new blocks each of six apartments were built in the grounds overlooking the lake, a further consignment of apartments known as Lady Aston Park, a BUPA Residential Care Home and private BUPA hospital followed. It is Grade II listed.

External links

* [http://www.bupahospitals.co.uk/littleaston/hospital_littleaston.asp BUPA Hospital Little Aston]
* [http://www.bupacarehomes.co.uk/carehomes/html/Astoncourtnursingandresidentialhome.html BUPA Residential Care and Nursing Home Aston Court]
*IoE|272660|- Hall - Grade II
*IoE|272661|- Orangery - Grade II