Cosgrove Hall, Northamptonshire

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Entrance gate to the hall

Cosgrove Hall is an early-18th-century Grade II listed country house in Cosgrove, Northamptonshire.<ref name=NHLEHall>Template:NHLE</ref><ref name='VicCount'>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was built on the site of an earlier house by the Furtho family. It is not open to the public.<ref name="NCC">Rights of Way, Northamptonshire, Northants County Council 2003, accessed 24 December 2010Template:Dead link</ref> It may have been built by John Lumley of Northampton.<ref name = "Pevsner">Template:Cite book</ref> In the nineteenth century, the building belonged to John Christopher Mansel.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In May 1945, Queen Geraldine of Albania, the Queen consort to King Zog I of Albania, opened a fête at the hall.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The building was destroyed by fire in October 2016.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

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.<ref name=NHLEDove>Template:NHLE</ref><ref name=NHLEStable>Template:NHLE</ref><ref name=NHLEIce>Template:NHLE</ref> In front of the house, there is an excavated Roman bath house, viewable from the Grand Union Canal.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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