Clare House
CLARE HOUSE, 28, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162637
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Clare House
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE HOUSE, 28, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1162637
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Clare House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLARE HOUSE, 28, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE HOUSE, 28, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55967 46699
Details
TL 5446 LINTON HIGH STREET (South-East Side)
15/152 No. 28 (Clare House) 22.11.67 GV II
House. C16, remodelled C18. Timber-framed and plastered with high painted brick plinth. Plain tile roof. Ridge stack with late C16 moulded brick base. Two storeys and attics. Main entrance to right hand with six-panelled door and reeded wooden architrave with flat canopy on shaped brackets. Two ground floor and three first floor twelve-paned flush-framed hung sash windows. The original building may have been the Unicorn Inn which occupied this site. No 28 with No 26 became The Red Lion Inn c.1685, owned by the Webbs c.1720 and in early C19 became a posting inn.
Palmer, M W The Antiquities of Linton, p5 1913 C.C. V.C.H. Vol. VI p83 Stevens, R L Linton P.C. Pub. p25, 1982 R.C.H.M. Report. 1951 Map of Manor of Bergham. 1600. Pembroke College
Listing NGR: TL5596746699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 83
Stevens, R L, Linton, (), 25
Palmer, W M, The Antiquities of Linton, (1913), 5
Other
Reports on Buildings in the Parishes of Babraham Great Abington Hildersham Linton Little Abington and Pampisford Cambridgeshire, (1951)
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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