Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, England

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

Formal gardens of the early 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, now a public park, forming the setting to Ayscoughfee Hall, a museum.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Ayscoughfee Hall occupies an urban setting in the centre of the town of Spalding, on the east bank of the River Welland. The roughly 0.3 hectare triangular site sits on level ground, bounded to the west by Churchgate and to the east by Love Lane. The north-east boundary overlooks the church of St Mary and St Nicholas while the north-west boundary overlooks the Town Hall.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

W White, Directory of Lincolnshire (1856), p 845

Country Life, 19 (10 June 1906), pp 730-5

W F Rawnsley, Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire (1926), pp 445-6

H Thorold and J Yates, Lincolnshire, A Shell Guide (1965), p 124

N Pevsner et al, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (2nd edition 1989), pp 675-7

R Pursglove, The History of Ayscoughfee Hall, (South Holland Museums Service 1996)

Ayscoughfee History, guidebook, (no date)

Ayscoughfee Hall, Spalding, the museum of South Holland, guidebook, (no date)

Maps

J Grundy, A plan of the town of Spalding ..., 1732 (Lincolnshire Archives)

Capt A Armstrong, Map of the County of Lincolnshire, 1779 (Lincolnshire Archives)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1906

Archival items

Indentures between owners and trustees of Ayscoughfee Hall, May 1898; supplementary indenture between trustees and Spalding Urban District Council, August 1902 (Lincolnshire Archives)
 

Description written: June 2000

Redrafted: May 2001

Edited: May 2002