HISTORIC England has relisted seven buildings that witnessed the life of Charlotte Brontë.

The organisation has updated the buildings – including the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth – to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte’s birth.

They include the properties that inspired Charlotte’s most famous novel, Jane Eyre, and the house where she contracted a fatal illness.

The buildings were already on the National Heritage List for England, but now their entries fully acknowledge the important history of the novelist.

Historic England spokesman, Eric Branse-Instone, said: “We are glad to be able to celebrate and mark the history of this important novelist on the National Heritage List for England.

“These buildings help to tell the story of Charlotte Brontë’s life and the inspiration of her work."

The Haworth Parsonage, where Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne grew up and wrote her novels, is a Grade I listed building.

Stone Gappe, in Lothersdale, which is listed Grade II, is thought to be the inspiration for Gateshead Hall – the unhappy childhood home of Jane Eyre. Charlotte was a governess there for a short time in 1839.

The Rev Patrick Brontë was curate of the Chapel of St James, also known as Old Bell Chapel, in Thornton, and his three literary daughters were baptised there.

Number 74 Market Street in Thornton was the birthplace of the Brontë sisters. North Lees Hall in Derbyshire was the ancestral home of the real-life Eyre family, and boasts the real-life story of a mad woman who was kept in an upstairs room, giving her the inspiration for the novel.

The Grade II listed vicarage in the village of Hathersage was immortalised in Jane Eyre as Morton village.

Charlotte caught a chill whilst walking in the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire, and it is thought this led to her death in 1855.