Cosgrove Hall and Attached Office Wing

COSGROVE HALL AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, STRATFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371636
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Cosgrove Hall and Attached Office Wing
Statutory Address:
COSGROVE HALL AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, STRATFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1371636
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
18-May-1988
List Entry Name:
Cosgrove Hall and Attached Office Wing
Statutory Address 1:
COSGROVE HALL AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, STRATFORD ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
COSGROVE HALL AND ATTACHED OFFICE WING, STRATFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cosgrove
National Grid Reference:
SP 79123 42319

Details

COSGROVE STRATFORD ROAD SP7941 (South side) 16/12 Cosgrove Hall and attached 01/12/51 office wing (Formerly listed as Cosgrove Hall)

GV II

Country house. Early C18 with C19 and C20 alterations. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof and stone internal stacks. H plan. 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range. 3-bay recessed centre of entrance front has been filled by projecting 2-storey extension with flat roof behind stone-coped parapet; probably early C19. Central single-storey porch with panelled double-leaf doors and overlight flanked by Doric pilasters bearing simple entablature; moulded stone cornice and blocking cornice. 12-pane sash windows to ground and 1st floors with moulded stone sills and surrounds with keyblocks. Wave-moulded plinth, Corinthian pilasters in two orders defining bays, and deep coved and moulded wood and plaster eaves. 4 straight-headed roof dormers. 3-bay right side elevation and garden front have similar windows and Doric pilasters. Both elevations have central glazed garden doors with moulded stone surrounds. Recessed centre of garden front formerly had pediment to central bay. 2-storey double-depth service wing projects at left end of entrance front. Of coursed squared limestone with 2-span hipped plain tile roof and brick lateral and internal stacks. Mid/late C18. Irregular glazing with 12-pane sashes to right side, facing forecourt otherwise 1- and 2-light casement windows, all with wood lintels. Interior: open-well staircase with column-on-vase balusters, 3 to each tread and spiral fluting to vase, carved tread ends and mahogany ramped handrail. Reeded wood door surrounds. Modillion plaster cornices. C18 marble chimneypieces, probably brought in at later date, Cl6 stone fireplace to garden hall, also brought-in, with Tudor arched head, carved spandrels and brattishing. Late C16 or early C17 panelling and overmantel in upper room of service wing (brought-in). (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, pl59; Wolverton Historical Journal 1970, pp34-40)

Listing NGR: SP7912342319

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
235247
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 159
Wolverton Historical Journal in Wolverton Historical Journal, (1970), 34-40

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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