Cottesbrooke Hall, Northampton, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Formal gardens of largely 20th-century date with work by several designers including R. W. Schultz, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Sylvia Crowe, and later 18th-century landscape park, associated with an early 18th-century country house.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Cottesbrooke lies on a minor road north-east of Brixworth, which lies on the A508 roughly midway between, and about 15 kilometres distant from, Northampton to the south and Market Harborough to the north. Cottesbroke can also be reached via the A50 Northampton to Leicester road, which passes 2 kilometres to the west. The Hall lies to the north of the village, with its park extending for 2.5 kilometres along the settlement's east and north sides. The area here registered extends to roughly 250 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 79 (15 February 1936), pp 168-73; (22 February 1936), pp 194-8; 117 (17 March 1955), pp 736-9; (24 March 1955), pp 806-9; 147 (19 February 1970), pp 434-7; 179 (15 May 1986), pp 1328-31

N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (1973), pp 162-4

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Inventories: Northamptonshire 3, (1981), pp 54-8

S Campbell, Cottesbrooke: An English Kitchen Garden (1987)

B A Bailey (editor), Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Drawings of Peter Tillemans and Others, Northants Record Soc 39, (1996), p 42

J Heward and R Taylor, The Country Houses of Northamptonshire, (RCHM(E) 1996), pp 141-4

Cottesbrooke Hall, guidebook,(no date)

Cottesbrooke Hall Gardens, guidebook,(no date)

Maps

T Eayre and T Jefferys, The County of Northamptonshire..., 1779 (2nd edition 1791)

Map of new drive, no date, around 1780 (L(C) 1563), (Northants Record Office)

T Gaffers, Map of Northamptonshire, 1791

Map of village, no date, around 1800 (L(C)1702), (Northants Record Office)

Map of estate, no date, around 1800 (FS 23/47), (Northants Record Office)

A Bryant, Map of Northamptonshire, 1827

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1886-8; 2nd edition published 1900-1
 

Description written: 1998

Edited: January 2000