Clare House is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. House. 1 related planning application.
Clare House
- WRENN ID
- blind-wattle-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Clare House, 42, Church Street, Northborough, City of Peterborough, PE6 9BN
- OS grid reference
- TF 156 077
- Coordinates
- 52.65561, -0.29232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clare House is an 18th-century cottage located on Church Street in Northborough. It is said to have been built in 1823 for the poet John Clare, although it was actually an existing cottage given to him around that time by Fitzwilliam. Clare resided in the cottage for ten years. The building is constructed of coursed stone rubble with a thatched roof, featuring brick coped gable ends. It is one storey high with an attic. The front facade has a three-window range, with 2-light casement windows dating to the 19th century, although the central window is modern. An attic window is set within the thatch at eaves level. Brick chimney stacks are present at the ends of the building. A single-storey, flat-roofed stone lean-to extension is attached to the west end.
Local climate
Clare House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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