Lasborough Park

KINGSCOTE LASBOROUGH ST 89 SW 6/114 Lasborough Park (formerly listed in Westonbirt with Lasborough parish) 3.11.71 II

Small country house. 1794 by James Wyatt for Edmund Estcourt, altered and enlarged during C19, possibly by Holford family who may have lived here during the construction of Westonbirt House (q.v., see Westonbirt with Lasborough parish). Coursed and dressed stone on chamfered plinth with hipped slate roof and parapet, and stone stacks. Tudor Gothic. Main range a symmetrical design of 2 storeys with central 3-storey canted bay with embattled parapet above string course, and 4 square corner towers, embattled above corbel table, with single window bay between towers and central feature. Windows mostly large ovolo- moulded 2-light stone mullions, with transoms to ground floor. Two corner towers on garden side have half-glazed doors to outside. Large U-shape C19 rear additions including polygonal corner porch on east side, in similar style. Interior has simple classical plaster friezes probably by Wyatt, cantilevered stone stair into south west tower, with iron balustrade. Marble fireplace in drawing room. Wyatt's original plans, not executed to exactly the same design, hang in the library on north east corner. (David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire - the Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST8184093760