Ashcombe Park is a
country house
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An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhou ...
and estate near
Cheddleton
Cheddleton is an ancient parish and village in the Staffordshire Moorlands, near to the town of Leek, England.
History
The earliest reference to the village of Cheddleton is in the Domesday Book when it was held by Roger de Montgomery, Earl o ...
, in
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...
, England.
The house is a Grade II*
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
, listed on 2 May 1953.
History and description
Botham Hall, built in the 16th century, stood on the site later occupied by Ashcombe Park House; it was once surrounded by a deer park, and in the late 18th century it was owned by the Debank family.
["Ashcombe Park, Cheddleton"]
Parks and Gardens. Retrieved 2 February 2020.["Ashcombe Park, Cheddleton"]
Staffordshire Past Track. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
Ashcombe Park House was built from 1807 to 1811 for William Sneyd, after his marriage to Jane Debank. The architect and builder was
James Trubshaw. The parkland around the house was designed at about this time; the fishponds date from the 1860s. The property remained in the Sneyd family until 1936.
[
The house is faced with sandstone ]ashlar
Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones.
Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...
, and has a Tuscan porte-cochère
A porte-cochère (; ; ; ) is a doorway to a building or courtyard, "often very grand," through which vehicles can enter from the street or a covered porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which originally a ...
, said to have been moved from another Sneyd house, Belmont Hall in Cheadle.["Belmont Hall, Cheadle"]
Parks and Gardens. Retrieved 4 February 2020. There is a walled garden, and the parkland is surrounded by a stone wall.[
]
See also
* Listed buildings in Cheddleton
* The Ashes, Endon
References
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Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire
Country houses in Staffordshire
Cheddleton