Clay Cottage

CLAY COTTAGE, 4, CLAY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162499
Date first listed:
14-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:
Clay Cottage
Statutory Address:
CLAY COTTAGE, 4, CLAY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162499
Date first listed:
14-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:
Clay Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CLAY COTTAGE, 4, CLAY LANE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLAY COTTAGE, 4, CLAY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Castor
National Grid Reference:
TL 12292 98662

Details

1. 5141 CASTOR CLAY LANE (east side) No 4 (Clay Cottage) TL 1298 50/126 14.11.74 II GV 2. Probably late Cl7 coursed stone rubble house, much altered. Steeply pitched Belgium tile roof with gabled ends, south end has parapet gable and internal brick stacks. Ridge stack near north end. One storey and attic. Two ground floor casements with timber lintels and modern lean-to porch in angle made by single storey wing to south-west also with steeply pitched Belgium tile roof with gabled end. Continuous modern attic dormer of 3 casements and with flat roof. Modern lean-to garage on north end. Interior: An old piscina forms internal window cill of one room. RCHM (24) page 68.

Listing NGR: TL1229298662

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
49918
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, , Peterborough New Town: a survey of antiquities..., (1969), 68

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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