Alscot Lodge
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Type
Description
Early nineteenth century villa gardens at Alscot Lodge, with later nineteenth and twentieth century alterations
Mentioned by Sheahan in 1862, lawns and trees. Layout shown on 1st edition OS maps apparently unchanged (B2).
A typical garden and pleasure ground for a small, Regency-style country villa developed in the 1830s from a farmstead with a small associated estate acquired by a local lawyer to become the focus of a Bucks hamlet. The mid-C19 2.5 ha. site is of a typical largely informal layout focussed on the detached villa set in the Vale of Aylesbury below the Chiltern scarp and on the Alscot Brook, widened in the mid-late C19 as a narrow lake (and since then further widened) and enclosed by a belt of mature ornamental trees. The extent and survival of villa gardens is not well recorded and this is a good example at this scale, with an ensemble of typical features including gateways, boundary wall, a walled kitchen garden and stable yard which survives largely intact. See report for detail (B3).
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Early nineteenth century villa gardens at Alscot Lodge, with later nineteenth and twentieth century alterations
Date Listed
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