Lotherton Hall is situated in the village of Aberford on the outskirts of Leeds, just off junction 43 of the A1.

The historic house is of a late Victorian and Edwardian design and in 1825 Richard Oliver Gascoigne purchased the property, he hired the local architects J.P. Pritchett and Charles Watson to completely re design the property. The Gasgoine family had been landowners in this area since the 16^th Century but at the time their main residence was at ‘Parlington Park’, since demolished, on the other side of the Great North Road. It wasn’t until the late 1800’s that Lotherton Hall became the family’s main seat when Richard’s grandson Frederick inherited the property at the end of the 19^th century.

It was between 1895 – 1931 that Frederick and his wife enlarged and improved the property as well as creating new formal gardens. It was on the death of Frederick Gasgoine’s son in 1970 that the house and contents were left to the City of Leeds