Fletton Towers

Heritage listing

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. ------------------------------------ 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 t

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.