Clare Cottage
CLARE COTTAGE, 16, WOODGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE COTTAGE, 16, WOODGATE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01580/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLARE COTTAGE, 16, WOODGATE
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 COTTAGE, 16, WOODGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helpston
- National Grid Reference:
- TF1213105302
Details
1.
5141
TF 1205
37/328
15.12.55
HELPSTON
WOODGATE
(west side)
No 16
(Clare Cottage)
(formerly listed as Clares Cottage under South Street
II*
GV
2.
C17/early C18 cottage. The birthplace of the poet John Clare (1793-1864).
Extended at south end in C18. Whitewashed stone rubble. Thatched roof with
gabled ends. One storey and attic. Five window range. Modern 2-light casements.
Right-hand splayed bay with thatched roof. Plank door with thatched hood.
Four eyebrow dormers. End and ridge stacks of stone, north stack heightened
in brick.
Stone tablet on front with inscription "In this cottage John Clare the poet was
born 13 July 1793. This tablet is erected by the Peterborough Museum Society
1921". Grade II* for historical associations.
Listing NGR: TF1213105302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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