Former Police Station

Hobson House, 42 - 44 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068682
Date first listed:: 18-May-1967
List Entry Name:: Former Police Station
Statutory Address:: Hobson House, 42 - 44 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1068682
Date first listed:: 18-May-1967
List Entry Name:: Former Police Station
Statutory Address 1:: Hobson House, 42 - 44 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AS

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Hobson House, 42 - 44 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 3AS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 45261 58157

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

TL 4558 SW 7/651

ST ANDREW'S STREET (West Side) Nos 42-44 (Hobson House)

(Formerly listed as Police Station)

18.5.67.

II

1901, by John Morley, in the manner of G G Scott the younger's New Building at Pembroke of 1883 (qv). Ashlar faced. Three storeys and attics, in five bays. The ground floor has a central doorway, with two-light mullion and transom windows to right. The left hand bays have been altered for a garage entrance. The original openings all have Gibbs surrounds. The first floor has two-light mullion windows, above two-light with mullion and transom. All windows are leaded lattice casements. Over the doorway is a five-light three-transom window. Pedimented and Venetian gabled dormers on the attic storey with balustrades between. Slate roof.

Listing NGR: TL4526158157

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Legacy System number:: 47739
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.