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Fawsley Hall Hotel & Spa
Daventry, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Knightleys held Fawsley from 1416; Sir Edmund Knightley raised the Great Hall in 1537. Elizabeth I is said to have slept in what is now the Queen's Chamber in 1575; Charles I reputedly hunted the park the night before Naseby. Anthony Salvin remodelled later wings. It opened as a hotel around 1998, 60 rooms, AA Four Red Stars. Hand Picked operates.
- 60 rooms
- Opened 1998
- Neighborhood: Fawsley
- Architect: Anthony Salvin
About Fawsley Hall Hotel & Spa
- The Knightley family held the manor from 1416, and Sir Edmund Knightley commissioned the Great Hall in 1537.
- Queen Elizabeth I is said to have stayed in 1575, in what is now called the Queen's Chamber.
- Charles I reputedly hunted deer on the estate on the eve of the Battle of Naseby.
- The hall was requisitioned during both World Wars and used as a timber workshop in the 1950s and 1960s before opening as a hotel around 1998.
History
The Knightleys held Fawsley from 1416. Sir Edmund Knightley commissioned the Great Hall in 1537, the Tudor heart of a red-brick Northamptonshire manor that still stands. Queen Elizabeth I is said to have slept here in 1575, in the room now called the Queen's Chamber; Charles I reputedly hunted the park on the eve of Naseby in 1645.
A Georgian wing followed in 1728 and a north wing in 1732, later remodelled by Anthony Salvin. The house was requisitioned in both world wars and spent the 1950s and 1960s as a timber workshop before Mr and Mrs E. A. Saunders bought it in 1975. A consortium took it on in 1996 and opened it as a hotel around 1998.
It is a Hand Picked house now, sixty rooms in parkland, with the 1537 hall still the room you walk into. The Tudor south wing and the Georgian additions read as one English country house, not a museum with a spa bolted on.
The setting
5.2 miles from Canons Ashby House.
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Tennis
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AA Four Red Stars (2025)
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