Built for the Cecil family in the early 1600s, the house was occupied for 150 years before it was partially demolished, with only the towers and outer walls surviving.

William Camden referred to it as a "handsome seat" surrounded by a "little park wall'd about", but there were no contemporary reports detailing its interior.

[4] At the cusp of Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, Wothorpe Towers exhibits "the gradual hardening process that changed the free and light-hearted treatment of Elizabeth's time into the more formal and laboured work of the middle and end of the 17th century.

The towers have tall rectangular window openings under moulded architraves, as well as small square over-windows with cornices and flat volute decorations.

[5] The tower block is partially enclosed by the listed gateway and stone walls, which rise to about 18 ft in height at the south-east end.