Gledstone Hall, Skipton, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A country house and formal gardens designed by Edwin Lutyens in the 1920s, with a planting scheme supplied by Gertrude Jekyll.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Gledstone Hall stands 1 kilometre north-west of the village of West Marton, west of Skipton. The roughly 12 hectare site is bounded to the west and south by Gledstone Road, leading from West Marton, and to the east and north by agricultural land. The ground around the Hall falls gently to the south, having been levelled and terraced to support the gardens, and rises to the east. The setting is rural.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

T D Whitaker, History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven (1878), p 94

Country Life, 77 (13 April 1935), pp 374-9; (20 April 1935), pp 400-05; 170 (31 December 1981), pp 2292-4

Garden History 8, no 3 (1980), pp 40-3, 45, 48

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), pp 138-9

M and R Tooley, Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll in Northern England (1982), pp 20-7, 55

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1909

Archival items

Copies of Jekyll's planting plans (folder 195) are held on microfilm at the National Monuments Record (originals held at Reef Point, USA).
 

Description written: December 1994

Amended: December 1999

Edited: October 2004