Listed Building: Cosgrove Hall and attached office wing (16/12)

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, C16 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, p159; Wolverton Historical Journal 1970, pp34-40)

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