Wothorpe House

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