Monument record 0110100000 - WING PARK (ASCOTT HOUSE)

Summary

Site of former seventeenth to eighteenth century Ascott House recorded in field survey

Protected Status/Designation

Ancient Monument 1018009: ASCOTT HOUSE: REMAINS OF 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY MANSION, FORMAL GARDENS AND WARREN
Planning Notification Area: Earthworks of 16th and 17th century mansion and gardens of Ascott House
SHINE: Multi-period remains including site of medieval manor, associated designed garden & ponds, ridge and furrow, Civil War earthworks and WWI practice trenches

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Type and Period (3)

GREAT HOUSE (17th Century to 18th Century - 1600 AD to 1799 AD)
QUARRY (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
EXTRACTIVE PIT (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)

Description

SITE OF FORMER ASCOTT HOUSE, NOW INDICATED BY A RAISED PLATFORM (B7).
AT NGR (B6).
ASSOCIATED WITH HOUSE SITE ARE A BOWLING GREEN & REMAINS OF FORMAL GARDENS. ADJACENT IS A ?DMV (B7).
THE PRESENT ASCOTT HOUSE, A MAINLY C19 BUILDING, IS TO NE (CAS 00583). SCHEDULED: SAM 29417 (B16).
Earl of Caernarvon's house sacked in 1642 (B19).

A late medieval or early post-medieval quarry and/or extraction site is visible on historic aerial photograph and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604).Located about 170 metres NW of Ascott Manor and centred at SP 88829 22507, the quarry or extraction site has irregularly edges but has a roughly rectangular shape at 112 metres N-S and 78 metres W-E at its widest, covering an area about 6,026 square metres. It is possible that this is the source of material for the construction of old Ascott House (demolished following damage in the English Civil war) and its formal gardens. Equally possible is that this was actually the site of old Ascott House and the extraction represents the robbing and removal of the house’s stone following its demolition. However, if so, it is angled at 45 degrees to the formal gardens, which seems somewhat antithetical. The extraction area does not feature on historic OS map editions but is clearly visible underlying post-medieval field boundaries on aerial photographs taken in 1944. Much of the area is now covered by a newly grown square of (unnamed) woodland on aerial photographs taken in 2003, which remains extant in 2024 (20-23).

Sources (25)

<1>SBC26953 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 3). Volume 3. pp523-525.
<2>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. pp782-783.
<3>SBC266 Bibliographic reference: ALLCROFT A H 1908 EARTHWORKS OF ENGLAND P610.
<4>SBC20467 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1913. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 2. p335.
<5>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p450.
<6>SBC10754 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP 82 SE:13-15 (FILED).
<7>SBC11930 Bibliographic reference: PIKE A R (BCM) FROM NMR A/P SP8822/22, FEB 1988 (COPY AT BCM) & FARLEY M E (BCM) JAN 1993 FIELD VIS.
<8>SBC11909 Bibliographic reference: PIKE A R (BCM) AUG 1980 FIELD VISIT.
<9>SBC12502 Unpublished document: M J Rains. 1982. EARTHWORKS IN WING PARK.
<10>SBC1808 Verbal communication: BRAND J SEPT 1985 PERS COMM TO FARLEY M E (BCM) (SEE LIST OF FINDS, FILED).
<11>SBC8026 Bibliographic reference: Daniel & Samuel Lysons. 1813. Magna Britannia: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain (Volume 1 Part 3 Buckinghamshire). p666.
<12>SBC11903 Verbal communication: PIKE A R (BCM) 17 MAY 1990 PERS COMM TO JPP.
<13>SBC11931 Verbal communication: Andrew Pike (BCM). 1992. INFORMATION FROM 1990 NMR AP REF SP8822/22.
<14>SBC2370 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1993. A418 Wing Bypass Archaeological Assessment Stages 2, 3A & 4A.
<15>SBC1726 Graphic material: BKS Surveys Ltd. 1984. 1:500 CONTOUR SURVEY (PLOTTED FROM AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY).
<16>SBC13935 Scheduling record: English Heritage. 1999. SCHEDULING LIST OF INSPECTORATE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS, FEBRUARY 1999.
<17>SBC11456 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeotechnics. 1993. Proposed A418 Wing Bypass: Magnetic Susceptibility & Magnetometer Survey.
<18>SBC25162 Verbal communication: Mike Farley (BCM). 1993. PERS COMM FOLLOWING FIELD VISIT, JANUARY 1993.
<19>SBC25958 Bibliographic reference: Ian Beckett. 2015. Wanton Troopers: Buckinghamshire in the Civil Wars 1640-1660. p63.
<20>SBC26846 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2024. US-7PH-GP-LOC157 FV 7014 25-JAN-1944.
<21>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP82SE Environment Agency National LIDAR Programme DTM 1 Metre dated 2020 SP8822.
<22>SBC25593 Aerial Photograph: Google Earth. Google Earth Pro. Dated 01-JAN-2003 Accessed online 5-JUL-2024.
<23>SBC25596 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2022. Next Perspectives APGB Imagery. 15-JUN-2022 SP8822.
<24>SBC14472 Article in serial: F Ouvry. 1853. ARCHAEOLOGIA 1853 35 P382 (F OUVRY). Vol 35.
<25>SBC8040 Unpublished document: MSS EARL OF COWPER II: 403; III: 2, 45, 59, 73, 77, 167.

Location

Grid reference	SP 88750 22490 (point)
Civil Parish	WING, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Monuments/Buildings (11)

Related Events/Activities (5)

Event - Survey: (EBC13479)
Event - Survey: (EBC13836)
Event - Survey: (EBC14129)
Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 9179) (EBC18604)
Event - Survey: Magnetic susceptibility, detailed magnetometry and auger surveys (Ref: 025393/WIB/BCM) (EBC10547)

Record last edited

Nov 14 2024 9:50PM