Listed_buildings_in_Cambridge_(west)

Listed buildings in Cambridge (west)

Listed buildings in Cambridge (west)

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There are 833 listed buildings (as of December 2023) in the district of Cambridge, England.[1] This list summarises the 87 in the west and north-west suburbs, in the area west of the Backs and broadly between Huntingdon Road, Queen's Road, Barton Road and the M11. This was the West Fields, which largely passed into the ownership of the Cambridge colleges, particularly St John's, after enclosure in 1805, and was little developed until after 1870;[2][3] the older population centres of Castle Hill and Newnham[4] are excluded from this list. The major roads are Madingley Road running east–west and Grange Road running north–south. There are 18 buildings listed at grade II*, with the remainder at grade II; there are no grade-I-listed buildings in this area.

Elmside by E. S. Prior (now part of Clare Hall) is an example of a grade-II-listed Arts and Crafts house in this area.

Many of the listed buildings and structures are associated with the university, its colleges and the theological colleges. The earliest university building was the Observatory, built north of Madingley Road in 1822–24 on a green-field site, then far from the town.[5] In the 1870s, several new colleges were founded in the south of the area: Newnham College (1875), Ridley Hall (1877) and Selwyn College (1879), followed in the 1890s by theological colleges to the north: Westminster College (1896) and St Edmund's House (1896).[2] Clare College was the first to build accommodation west of Queen's Road with Memorial Court (from 1923), and the University Library moved to a new building on an adjacent site off West Road in 1931–34.[4][6] Development recommenced in the 1950s; the university built a large arts site off Sidgwick Avenue from 1954, and several new university colleges were founded within the area: Churchill College (1959), New Hall (now Murray Edwards College; 1962), Clare Hall (1966) and Robinson College (1977). Established colleges also added sites: Gonville and Caius's Harvey Court by the University Library (1960–62), and Corpus Christi's Leckhampton site west of Grange Road (1963–64).[7]

A few listed villas pre-date the Observatory, the earliest being 35 Madingley Road of around 1800.[8] Residential development in the area accelerated in the late 19th century, when substantial detached family houses set in large plots of 0.5–1.0 acres or more were built to accommodate married academics and well-off professionals, often designed by well-known London-based architects, including M. H. Baillie Scott, J. J. Stevenson and E. S. Prior.[2][9] Most of the houses are traditional in appearance, including Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne styles.[2][4] Plots were leased under restrictive terms that required the development of expensive high-quality houses, often specifying the use of red brick (rather than the local pale gault brick) with a tiled roof.[2][10] The White House, Cambridge's first house in the International Style, was built in 1930–31 in the north-west of the area on Conduit Head Road, which has a group of 1930s Modernist houses.[11] The most-recent listed building, and the only listed commercial building in this area, is the Schlumberger Gould Research Centre of 1982–84, a high-tech structure by Michael Hopkins.[12]

Listed buildings and structures

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Notes and references

  1. Dates in Bradley & Pevsner are preferred where there is a conflict.
  2. The precise location is given first as a grid reference, based on the British national grid reference system (or OSGB36) of the Ordnance Survey, and second as World Geodetic System 84 coordinates, used by the Global Positioning System. Data derive from the grid references at Historic England's National Heritage List for England.
  3. The listing states the architect was Blomfield and the date 1882–89, but this is contradicted in Bradley & Pevsner (which gives 1932) and Selwyn College's website (which gives 1939).
  4. Four storeys according to Bradley & Pevsner; the listing notes two storeys plus attics.
  5. The listing states the gate screen is wrought iron; according to Bradley & Pevsner the gates are bronze.
  6. At the time of the listing, two of the non-projecting bays had gables, but the Images of England photograph of 2003 shows four gables.
  1. Search at Historic England (7 December 2023)
  2. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 34; Rawle, pp. 32, 219
  3. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 27; Rawle, p. 201
  4. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 36
  5. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 39–43
  6. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 342
  7. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 34; Rawle, pp. 33, 219
  8. Rawle, pp. 33, 219
  9. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 35, 342; Rawle, p. 62
  10. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 49
  11. Listed Buildings, Historic England (accessed 30 December 2023)
  12. Gas lamp post outside number 5, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 29 December 2023)
  13. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 45, 340, plate 117
  14. McKean, p. 19
  15. Rawle, p. 221
  16. 3, Clarkson Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 7 December 2023)
  17. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 35, 342
  18. Rawle, p. 62
  19. White House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  20. Salix, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  21. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 35, 342, plate 112
  22. Willow House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  23. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 343, plate 122
  24. Spring House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  25. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 35, 343
  26. Shawms, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 2 December 2023)
  27. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 337
  28. Five Gables, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 29 December 2023)
  29. Rawle, p. 218
  30. Upton House, entrance gates and gate piers, garden structures and garage, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 29 December 2023)
  31. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 208–11
  32. Rawle, pp. 148–49, 174–75
  33. Selwyn College Entrance Block, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 23 December 2023)
  34. Rawle, pp. 148–49
  35. Selwyn College Master's Lodge, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 23 December 2023)
  36. Selwyn College, North Range, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 23 December 2023)
  37. Selwyn College Chapel, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 23 December 2023)
  38. Rawle, pp. 60–61, 148–49
  39. Selwyn College Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  40. Selwyn College, Gateway and screen between the North Range and the Chapel, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 23 December 2023)
  41. Selwyn History, Selwyn College, Cambridge (accessed 23 December 2023)
  42. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 338
  43. Rawle, pp. 108, 139
  44. McKean, p. 22
  45. Corpus Christi College, George Thomson Building, Leckhampton House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  46. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 338
  47. Rawle, p. 60
  48. 48, Grange Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 15 December 2023)
  49. Bradley & Pevnser, p. 78
  50. Rawle, pp. 60–61
  51. Elmside including boundary wall and gate, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 9 December 2023)
  52. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 184–86
  53. Rawle, pp. 84–85, 163–65
  54. McKean, p. 40
  55. Robinson College, Cambridge, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 10 December 2023)
  56. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 339
  57. Cambridge University Real Tennis Club and Professionals House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 8 December 2023)
  58. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 340
  59. Silbury including gate piers and plinth wall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 8 December 2023)
  60. Whewell House, including boundary walls to south and west, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 7 December 2023)
  61. Saxmeadham, including flanking walls, front boundary wall and gate piers, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 7 December 2023)
  62. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 77–78, plate 121
  63. Rawle, pp. 160–61
  64. McKean, p. 31
  65. Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 15 December 2023)
  66. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 154–56
  67. Rawle, pp. 65, 83, 154–55
  68. Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall), National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  69. Kerbstones to pool in courtyard to west of hall, New Hall , National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 4 December 2023)
  70. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 28, 97–98
  71. The Grove, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 4 December 2023)
  72. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 242
  73. Westminster College Bounds, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  74. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 321
  75. End House South and End House North, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  76. Rawle, pp. 60–61, 156–67
  77. Westminster and Cheshunt College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 2 December 2023)
  78. The main and secondary gateway to Madingley Road and the boundary wall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 2 December 2023)
  79. The north west range of Westminster College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  80. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 341
  81. The Stone House and associated gate piers, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 2 December 2023)
  82. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 146
  83. Marshall House, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  84. Rawle, pp. 34–35
  85. Elterholm, 12 and 12A Madingley Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 2 December 2023)
  86. 31, Madingley Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  87. House and Brock brothers' studio, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 5 December 2023)
  88. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 276–77
  89. Rawle, p. 201
  90. The Observatory, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 6 December 2023)
  91. Northumberland Dome at the Observatory, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 6 December 2023)
  92. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 280, plate 124
  93. Rawle, pp. 66–67
  94. Schlumberger Gould Research Centre and attached perimeter wall to the north, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 6 December 2023)
  95. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 191
  96. Rawle, p. 153
  97. Chapel of St. Edmund's House (Roman Catholic), National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 3 December 2023)
  98. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 157–61
  99. Rawle, pp. 60, 144–45
  100. Newnham College, Old Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 25 December 2023)
  101. The Champneys Buildings, Newnham College (accessed 28 December 2023)
  102. Rawle, pp. 34–35, 60, 144–45
  103. Newnham College, Sidgwick Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 28 December 2023)
  104. Newnham College, Clough Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 28 December 2023)
  105. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 157–59, plate 104
  106. Newnham College, Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 28 December 2023)
  107. Rawle, pp. 60, 144–45, 174–75
  108. Newnham College, Pfeiffer Building, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 28 December 2023)
  109. Newnham College, Old Library, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 28 December 2023)
  110. History of the library, Newnham College (accessed 28 December 2023)
  111. Newnham College, Kennedy Buildings, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 26 December 2023)
  112. Newnham College, Peile Hall, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 25 December 2023)
  113. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 158, 161
  114. Rawle, pp. 144–45
  115. Katharine Stephen Rare Books Library, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 29 December 2023)
  116. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 269
  117. Trinity College: Entrance gates to the Fellows' Garden, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 14 December 2023)
  118. Clare College: Screen and gates fronting Queen's Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 16 December 2023)
  119. Newnham Cottage, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 20 December 2023)
  120. McKean, p. 13
  121. Powers, pp. 183–84
  122. Finella, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 20 December 2023)
  123. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 76–77
  124. Rawle, pp. 100–1
  125. Clare College Memorial Court, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 16 December 2023)
  126. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 77
  127. Falling Warrior sculpture in Clare College Memorial Court, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 16 December 2023)
  128. Clare College, gateway to the University Library, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 15 December 2023)
  129. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 241
  130. Rawle, pp. 166–67
  131. Ridley Hall Entrance Block, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  132. Ridley Hall Gateway onto Ridley Hall Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  133. Ridley Hall Chapel, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  134. Ridley Hall North Block, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 25 December 2023)
  135. Ridley Hall West Block, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 24 December 2023)
  136. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 269–72
  137. Rawle, p. 198
  138. Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 21 December 2023)
  139. Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge University, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 21 December 2023)
  140. Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge University, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 22 December 2023)
  141. Little Hall and attached Lecture Theatre block, Cambridge University, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 22 December 2023)
  142. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 269–70, 272–73
  143. Rawle, p. 199
  144. McKean, p. 27
  145. History Faculty Building, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 22 December 2023)
  146. 29 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  147. 30 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  148. 48 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  149. 54 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  150. 56 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  151. 63 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  152. 76 Storey's Way, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 1 December 2023)
  153. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 66–70
  154. Rawle, pp. 64, 82–83, 156–57
  155. Central buildings Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 5 December 2023)
  156. Wolfson Hall, Bracken Library and Bevin Rooms Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 5 December 2023)
  157. 3 linked residential courts due south of central buildings Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 5 December 2023)
  158. 3 linked residential courts due west of central buildings Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 5 December 2023)
  159. Chapel, Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 4 December 2023)
  160. Research flats, Churchill College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 4 December 2023)
  161. Entrance gateway to the University Library onto Burrell's Walk, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 14 December 2023)
  162. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 268–69
  163. Rawle, pp. 200–1
  164. University Library, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 15 December 2023)
  165. Bradley & Pevsner, pp. 336–37
  166. Rawle, pp. 80–81, 104–5
  167. McKean, p. 21
  168. Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius College, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 20 December 2023)
  169. Powers, pp. 94–95
  170. Bradley & Pevsner, p. 341
  171. 9, Wilberforce Road, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 6 December 2023)
  172. Emmanuel College Sports Pavilion, including Groundsman's House and stable, National Heritage List for England, Historic England (accessed 7 December 2023)

Sources

  • Simon Bradley, Nikolaus Pevsner. Cambridgeshire (The Buildings of England series) (Yale University Press; 2014) ISBN 978-0-300-20596-1
  • Charles McKean. Architectural Guide to Cambridge and East Anglia Since 1920 (Era Publications Board/RIBA Publications; 1982) ISBN 0-907598-013
  • Alan Powers. Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain (Merrell; 2005) ISBN 9781858942551
  • Tim Rawle. Cambridge Architecture (2nd edn) (André Deutsch; 1993) ISBN 0-233-98818-1

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