Aske Hall Georgian country house parkland Capability Brown Richmond North Yorkshire England Marquess of Zetland UK
This is an illustration from ‘Picturesque views of Scots of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’ Aske Hall is a Georgian country house, with parkland attributed to Capability Brown, miles ( km) north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. It contains an impressive collection of 18th-century furniture, paintings and porcelain, and in its grounds a John Carr stable block converted into a chapel in Victorian times with Italianate decor, a Gothic-style folly built by Daniel Garrett circa 1745, coach house with carriage, Victorian stable block, walled garden, terraced garden, and lake with a Roman-style temple. The hall and estate are currently owned by the Marquess of Zetland. It is a place of some antiquity, and long the de Aske family residence, but at first consisted merely of a square tower surrounded by bare and swampy fields. In this state it remained until it was purchased, in the year 1727, by Sir Conyers D'Arcy, who commenced those improvements which have now rendered it one of the finest country seats in the neighbourhood. There is an extensive prospect over the surrounding landscape from the top of the Temple, which is built on the exact model of a Hindoo Temple. On Pilmore Hill (between Aske and Richmond) is a Tower bearing the grotesque name of Olliver Ducat, which is said to be a perfect counterpart of an Indian Hill-Fort. Aske Hall's history has been well documented, notably in Richmond Architecture and in a two-part article by Giles Worsley published in Country Life in March 1990. The following description has been derived from these texts.
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