Longthorpe Tower House
LONGTHORPE TOWER HOUSE, LONGTHORPE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162040
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Longthorpe Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- LONGTHORPE TOWER HOUSE, LONGTHORPE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162040
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Longthorpe Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONGTHORPE TOWER HOUSE, LONGTHORPE
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:
- LONGTHORPE TOWER HOUSE, LONGTHORPE
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 16202 98380
Details
LONGTHORPE 1. 1500 (South Side) Longthorpe Tower House (Formerly listed as Tower Farmhouse) TL 1698 12/59 7.2.52. II GV 2. House consists of the original north-south wing, built in stone with a stone slate roof by William de Thorpe circa 1263. Solar window in North wall of 2 lights, divided by a shaft and with a quatrefoil in plate tracery. East-West wing with C17 details and modern additions to the East. Tower added at the north-east circa 1300. Square plan with turrets on corners. Walls 6 to 7 ft thick. Small windows of single lights with trefoiled heads on shouldered lintels. Some early Cl7 alterations. 3 storeys the 2 lower having quadripartite vaulting to the single room. Wall Paintings in the Great Chamber on the lst floor discovered after the Second World War are unique survivors of the secular decoration of the first half of the C14. North wall has the Nativity and the Wheel of life. Below are pairs of Apostles which continue round the room. Dado of birds and scroll. South wall has the morality of tile 3 living and the 3 Dead. West wall has the Labours of the Months. For a fuller description see "Arehaeologia" Vol. XCVI pp 1-57. "Country Life" Vol CI p 601. "Longthorpe Tower" (Ministry of Public Building and Works). AM Longthorpe Tower House and No 329 form a group. Also Longthorpe Tower House forms a group with outbuildings to rear and Dovecote to South-West.
Listing NGR: TL1620298380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rouse, E C, Longthorpe Tower, (1989)
Archaeologia in Archaeologia, Vol. 96, (), 1-57
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 101, (), 604
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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