Cold Overton Hall (east front)

Cold Overton Hall is a country house in the village of Cold Overton, Leicestershire, England. Built c.1664 for John St John, it is a Grade I listed building.

The hall is constructed in 3 storeys plus attics of ironstone with limestone dressings and a hipped Swithland slate roof. It has a 5 bay frontage. The west front has a two storey flat roofed porch projecting from a pedimented 3 bay centre. [1]

History

John St John bought the manor of Cold Overton from the Earl of Northampton c.1620 and built the present hall c.1664. In the early 18th century it was sold by the St John family to the self-made Turner family, in which it descended to a John Turner. Having no heir he willed it to his cousin Layton Frewen, who also died childless and left it in 1777 to his own cousin, the Rev Thomas Frewen, who thereupon adopted the additional surname of Turner. The property passed to his son John Frewen-Turner, who was MP for Athlone (1807–1812) and High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1791. [2]

Early in the 19th century the hall was sold to Earl Cowley and bought by James Montagu in 1912 who carried out a major refurbishment, introducing 16th and 17th century panelling, ceilings and fireplaces.

References

  1. ^ "COLD OVERTON HALL AND ADJOINING GARDEN WALLS". Historic England. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  2. ^ Burke, John. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. p. 532.

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