SNN108002 - The Old Dower House, Cosgrove, Northamptonshire: Archaeological buildings recording and analysis

The Old Dower House, Cosgrove, was formerly known as 'The Cottage' or 'Cosgrove Cottage'. It originated as a seventeenth-century vernacular dwelling, now the kitchen, morning room and bedrooms above, but was more than doubled in size by the addition in the eighteenth century of the grander, Georgian, premises of what became the 'Dower House'. This was subsequently extended on numerous occasions and the wider estate took in outbuildings and farmland served by an adjacent cottage, the 'White House'. Many of the outbuildings survive. There is evidence for the former existence of other buildings which can be mapped.