Clare College, the Buildings Surrounding the Fore and Principal Courts
CLARE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320280
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Clare College, the Buildings Surrounding the Fore and Principal Courts
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1320280
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Clare College, the Buildings Surrounding the Fore and Principal Courts
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLARE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
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 COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44665 58427
Details
CLARE COLLEGE 1. 942 The Buildings surrounding the Fore and Principal Courts TL 4458 SE 6/249 26.4.50. I 2. Built of Ketton and Weldon stone ashlar with Collyweston stone slate and lead roofs between 1638 and 1715, being delayed by the Civil War. They are, however, a remarkably unified and fine example of the Early Renaissance style. East Range and Main Gateway 1638-41 with alterations in 1891. Many C17 and C18 internal features. South Range 1640-42. Many C17 internal features. North Range with Hall and Library 1683-93. By Robert Grumbold. The interior of the Hall altered 1870-72 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Library woodwork by James Essex 1729. West Range 1640-1715. Master's Lodge re-modelled in 1815. Many features of the late C17 and early C18 remain. Chapel 1763-69. Designed by Sir James Burrough and James Essex. (All described in the RCHM).
Listing NGR: TL4466558427
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47108
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
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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