Wothorpe Towers
WOTHORPE TOWERS
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1265972
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wothorpe Towers
- Statutory Address:
- WOTHORPE TOWERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1265972
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wothorpe Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOTHORPE TOWERS
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 TOWERS
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 02534 05264
Details
1. 5141 WOTHORPE Wothorpe Towers TF 0205 32/698 19.5.62 Towers I GV 2. Ruins of a house built circa 1600 for Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, Lorn Burghley's eldest son. Built of ashlar faced rubble. Remains of central 3 storey block with 4 square 4-storey angle towers, tile top storeys octagonal with circular openings in the parapets, the stone ogee roofs have gone. The towers have tall window openings with moulded architraves and small square over-windows with cornices and flat volute decorations. Moulded cornices at floor levels. The towers are at the corners but originally there were projections between them, one contained the staircase, the hall was in the wing facing north-east which had a porch and a courtyard entered by a gateway which survives. VCH Northamptonshire Vol II.
Listing NGR: TF0253405264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50494
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)
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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