Aske Hall, Richmond, England

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

Pleasure grounds of the second quarter of the 18th century with later alterations and additions and a park of the same date which was altered and enlarged, probably to designs by Lancelot Brown in the 1770s.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Aske Hall lies about 1.5 kilometres north of Richmond in a rural and agricultural setting. The roughly 165 hectare site is on land which rises northwards from the valley of the Aske Beck, which runs along the south side of the site. Gilling Road forms the eastern boundary. Fences divide agricultural land from the southern boundary which follows the wooded edge of the valley of the Aske Beck for most of its length. The south-western boundary is formed by Washton Road and by a belt of trees called Mouldron Belt. The north-western boundary includes a drive through Mouldron Plantation, and walls and fences divide the northern boundary from agricultural land.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire The North Riding (1966), pp 65-6

Country Life, 156 (26 September 1974), pp 834-7

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), pp 215-16

J Hatcher, Richmondshire Architecture (1990), pp 6-9

Maps

J Colbeck, A Map of the Lordship of Ask in the North Riding of the County of York
Surveyed for the Honble Sr Conyers Darcy, no date (ZNK M1/1), (North Yorkshire Record Office)

G Jackson, A Plan of the Lordship of Ask belonging to the Right Honble Earl of Holdernesse, 1761 (ZNK M1/3), (North Yorkshire Record Office)

Map of Richmond, Aske and the environs, 1813 (ZNK M1/6), (North Yorkshire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1857; provisional edition 1957

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1913
 

Description written: November 1998

Amended: March 1999

Edited: October 1999