Aston Webb House was built in 1899–1901 on land purchased from Magdalen College, Oxford,[3] and is the sole remnant of a huge industrial complex belonging to Boord & Son, a long-established firm of distillers that was established in 1726.
[2] In 2003 the building was redeveloped to provide "fourteen luxury apartments with a feature staircase set within an existing glazed galleried atrium".
[6]An English Heritage architectural report completed in 1999 notes:The building is illustrative of Webb's early, pre-1900 career, which was characterised by eclecticism and variety of styles, including 'free Arts & Crafts', 'Jacobean', 'free Tudor', 'Franco-Flemish' and 'François Premier'.
Executed in high quality yellow stocks with red-brick dressings and liberal use of stone for the entrance frontispiece, cornice and details, it is conceived in a Free Classical style.
Distinction resides in the commanding rounded corner tourelles rising from ground to pointed conical slate roofs – a reference to Norman Shaw's New Scotland Yard.