Clare College Boathouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1996. Boathouse. 3 related planning applications.

Clare College Boathouse

WRENN ID
western-turret-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1996
Type
Boathouse
OS grid reference
TL 458 590
Coordinates
52.2107, 0.13342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Clare College Boathouse, built between 1898 and 1900, is a two-storey structure made of red brick with a pantiled roof. It features a four-window range. The ground floor has two pairs of timber boathouse doors set beneath basket arches. The first floor boasts a full-width timber balcony supported by square-section timber posts, accessible via a ladder staircase at the east end. The balcony's balustrade consists of repeated open squares within cross bracing. The first-floor windows include two central two-light casements, with the left one developed into a French window, and one outer three-light casement on each side. The hipped roof has a deep overhang, with the soffit facing the river adorned with five registers of triple drop pendants, the outer ones being doubled in depth. There are stacks on the east and west roof slopes. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension on the left (west) side, added in the late 20th century, which features double doors and a gable facing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Clare College Boathouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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