Author’s Tower home Is height of Good TASTE
It’s not often you find a castle on the outskirts of a city, but the striking Victorian Fletton tower ticks both those boxes for any potential new owner.
According to Historic England, the tower was built between 1841 and 1847 for W Lawrence Clark, of the Peace for the Liberty of Peterborough.
It was later the home of author L.P. Hartley, who grew up and was home schooled there.
He spent an unhappy, very strict childhood at Fletton tower, just outside Peterborough, until he was 13, where he was inspired to write by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. He went on to study at Harrow and Oxford before, in 1953, publishing his most famous novel The Go-between.
The seven-bedroom property, which sits in 3.5acres of garden, is now on the market for £1.85million.
Recently re-roofed, re-wired and re-plumbed, it still retains many original features, including stained glass windows, vaulted ceilings and painted ceiling, which has been meticulously restored. There’s also a Victorian bath, referenced by Hartley in his memoir.
■ Fletton Tower is for sale through Savills Stamford, currently priced £1.85million. See savillls.co.uk for details