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Latitude: 52.5708 / 52°34'15"N
Longitude: -0.2868 / 0°17'12"W
OS Eastings: 516202
OS Northings: 298380
OS Grid: TL162983
Mapcode National: GBR GYB.SBH
Mapcode Global: WHHNJ.KMMZ
Plus Code: 9C4XHPC7+87
Entry Name: Longthorpe Tower House
Listing Date: 7 February 1952
Last Amended: 7 May 1973
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1162040
English Heritage Legacy ID: 49725
Also known as: Longthorpe Tower: part of a medieval fortified house 90m west of St Botolph's Church
ID on this website: 101162040
Location: Longthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3
County: City of Peterborough
Electoral Ward/Division: West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Peterborough
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Longthorpe St Botolph
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Tower Fortified house
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
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