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Askham Hall
Askham Hall
	Askham Hall and gardens
General information
Type	Country house
Town or city	Askham
Country	England
Coordinates	54°36′26″N 2°45′03″W / 54.6073°N 2.7507°W
Year(s) built	14th century (initial), 1575 (expanded)

Askham Hall is a country house near Askham in Cumbria. It is a Grade I listed building.

History edit

A peel tower was built on the site during the 14th century.^[1] It passed into the hands of the Sandford family and in 1575 Thomas Sandford had it substantially enlarged.^[2] In 1730, with the death of William Sandford without male issue, it was inherited by his grandson, William Tatham. Tatham died childless in 1775,^[3] when the house was sold to Edward Bolton, a Preston lawyer. When he died childless in 1803, it was inherited by his great nephew, the infant Edward Bolton King,^[4] whose trustees sold it to William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale in 1815.^[5] It became a rectory in 1828 and then became a residence of the Lowther family in the 1830s.^[6] The 7th Earl of Lonsdale used it as his home after Lowther Castle was dismantled and closed in 1937.^[1] Askham Hall became a Grade I listed house in 1968.^[7]

Following the death of the 7th Earl in May 2006 the house has been owned by Caroline, Countess of Lonsdale.^[8] In 2012 the Countess of Lonsdale and her children, Charles Lowther and Marie-Louisa Raeburn, arranged the conversion of Askham Hall into a boutique hotel.^[6]

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Askham". Visit Cumbia. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
^ "'Askham', An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland (1936), pp. 20-28". British History on line. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
^ Tatham, Richard E. (1 January 1857). "The Family of Tatham" (PDF). p. 11. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ "King, Edward Bolton (1801-1878), of Umberslade Hall, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ "Holly House, Askham, Cumbria" (PDF). Oxford Archaeology. 1 May 2005. p. 16. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ ^a ^b "New country house hotel to be developed at Askham Hall in Cumbria". Caterer and Hotel keeper. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
^ "Askham Hall". British listed buildings. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^ "New lease of life for historic family seat". Cumberland & Westmoreland Herald. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.