Wothorpe Towers is a Grade I listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. A Circa 1600 Ruin.
Wothorpe Towers
- WRENN ID
- nether-plaster-root
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- Ruin
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
- 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
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