Landscape record 1301106000 - Alscot Lodge

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).