Historic house in Northamptonshire, England
Entrance gate to the hall
Cosgrove Hall is an early-18th-century
Grade II listed country house in
Cosgrove, Northamptonshire .
[1]
[2] It was built on the site of an earlier house by the Furtho family. It is not open to the public.
[3] It may have been built by John Lumley of Northampton.
[4] In the nineteenth century, the building belonged to
John Christopher Mansel .
[5]
[6] In May 1945, Queen
Geraldine of Albania , the
Queen consort to King
Zog I of Albania , opened a fête at the hall.
[7] The building was destroyed by fire in October 2016.
[8]
The
ice house at Cosgrove Hall in December 2010.
As well as the hall the other Grade II buildings on the estate are the
dovecote , the stable block and the
ice house .
[9]
[10]
[11] In front of the house, there is an excavated Roman bath house, viewable from the
Grand Union Canal .
[12]
References
^
Historic England ,
"Cosgrave Hall and Attached Office Wing (1371636)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 October 2016
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"Victoria County History - Northamptonshire A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 5, the Hundred of Cleley Cosgrove" . Victoria County History - Northamptonshire, Vol. 5 . British History Online. Retrieved 29 October 2015 .
^
Rights of Way, Northamptonshire, Northants County Council 2003, accessed 24 December 2010 [
permanent dead link ]
^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1961). The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire . London and New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 159–160.
ISBN
978-0-300-09632-3 .
^ Colburn, H. (1847).
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry . Vol. 2. p. 828. Retrieved 8 October 2016 .
^
Burke, Sir Bernard (1871).
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .
^ Pearson, Owen (July 2006).
Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History . Vol. 2.
I.B.Tauris .
ISBN
9781845111045 . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .
^
Cosgrove Hall fire: 18th Century country mansion gutted , BBC, 7 October 2016, retrieved 8 October 2016
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Historic England ,
"Dovecote at Cosgrove Hall (1371655)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 October 2016
^
Historic England ,
"Stable Block at Cosgrave Hall (1040806)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 October 2016
^
Historic England ,
"Ice House at SP 7926 4208 In Park of Cosgrove Hall (1040846)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 October 2016
^ Fisher, Stuart (May 2009).
The Canals of Britain: A Comprehensive Guide .
A & C Black . p. 50.
ISBN
9781408105177 . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .
52°04′25″N 0°50′50″W / 52.0735°N 0.8471°W / 52.0735; -0.8471