Wothorpe House
WOTHORPE HOUSE, THE SECOND DRIFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127412
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wothorpe House
- Statutory Address:
- WOTHORPE HOUSE, THE SECOND DRIFT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127412
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wothorpe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOTHORPE HOUSE, THE SECOND DRIFT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOTHORPE HOUSE, THE SECOND DRIFT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wothorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 02760 05810
Details
1. 5141 WOTHORPE THE SECOND DRIFT Wothorpe House TF 0205 32/709 II 2. Circa 1860-70. Victorian house in rock faced stone with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof with wide eaves and arched brace timber-frame gables on brackets supported on corbel heads. Two storeys and attic. Asymmetrical north-west front with right hand slightly advanced gable, the ground floor has squarebay with cusped arch lights and wide eaves on brackets, above is a window with 3 shouldered arch lights. Central semi-dormer with gable on brackets. Left hand, 2 storeyed gabled porch with diagonal angle buttresses with set-offs, and moulded arch doorway with Burghley arms above, and first floor Gothic traceried 2-light window. The south-west garden front has advanced right hand twin gables with oriel and ground floor canted bay with square first floor bay rising from hipped roof. large stone chimney stacks with slits between the square shafts. Interior: Hall fireplace with corbelled stone hood; moulded ceiling beams with arched braces on corbels and chamfered joists. Open-well staircase has Gothic traceried balusters.
Listing NGR: TF0276005810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50505
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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