Fletton Towers

FLETTON TOWERS, QUEENS WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300771
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1980
List Entry Name:
Fletton Towers
Statutory Address:
FLETTON TOWERS, QUEENS WALK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1300771
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1980
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Apr-1980
List Entry Name:
Fletton Towers
Statutory Address 1:
FLETTON TOWERS, QUEENS WALK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FLETTON TOWERS, QUEENS WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 18976 97642

Details

In the following items:- PETERBOROUGH 1. 1500 QUEENS WALK Fletton Tavers TL 1897 & TL 1997 7/145 II 2. Built between 1841 and 1847 for W Lawrence Clark of the Peace for the Liberty of Peterborough, to his own designs, with kitchen wing etc of 1860s. Large Tudor style stone house with freestone dressings. Two storeys. Three bays. Central three storey tower with asymmetrical corner turrets and paired chimney stacks. Parapet and moulded stringcourse and diagonal angle buttress. Three light stone mullion transom windows, each light divided into two, the centre light of each window is blocked. The central tower has a first floor oriel with carved initials over a moulded four-centred arch doorway. Interior: central hall has timber staircase in gothic style and painted ceilings dated 1864 (?). Childhood home of novelist L P Hartley. Fletton Tavers shall be amended to read Fletton Towers.

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PETERBOROUGH 1. 1500 QUEENS WALK Fletton Tavers TL 1897& TL 1997 7/145 II 2. Built between 1841 and 1847 for W Lawrence Clerk of the Peace for the Liberty of Peterborough, to his own designs, with kitchen wing etc of 1860s. Large Tudor style stone house with freestone dressings. Two storeys. Three bays. Central three storey tower with asymmetrical corner turrets and paired chimney stacks. Parapet and moulded stingcourse and diagonal angle buttress. Three light stone mullion transom windows, each light divided into two, the centre light of each window is blocked. The central tower has a first floor oriel with carved initials over a moulded four- centred arch doorway. Interior: central hall has timber staircase in gothic style and painted ceilings dated 1864 (?) Childhood home of novelist L P Hartley.

Listing NGR: TL1897697642

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
350355
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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