Poets Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1984. Cottage.

Poets Cottage

WRENN ID
wild-hinge-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1984
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 6270 TL 6370 FORDHAM CARTER STREET (north side) 11/95 12/95 No 6 (Poets' Cottage)

II

Cottage early C18. Clunch, painted and plastered with red pantile roofs and tall, local brick stack. Two unit plan with lower range at right angles, one storey and attic. Gothic two-centred arches to windows with glazing bars, and boarded door to left hand. House of James R Withers (b.1812-d.1892) a local poet.

Collected Poems of James R Withers by J Aspland, 1901 Bell J. sup. Ivatt. Hist. of Fordham, 1873, 1923

Listing NGR: TL6301370860

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