TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1125498
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL
Statutory Address:: TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1125498
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL
Statutory Address 1:: TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TRINITY COLLEGE, BISHOP'S HOSTEL

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 44698 58556

Details

TRINITY COLLEGE 1. 942 Bishop's Hostel TL 4458 NE 3/294 26.4.50. I 2. Built by Dr John Hackett, Bishop of Lichfield 1669-1671. The building is of brick, 2 storeys high, with projecting wings and hipped roofs of tiles. Restored by A W Blomfield 1874-78. Brick plinth, stone quoins and plat band at 1st floor level; plaster coved eaves cornice. C19 windows, hipped late C18 dormers. 3 bay frontage with Ionic centrepiece. Stone over doorway inscribed Bishop's Hostel 1670. The interior has been modernised, but 2 original staircases and some bolection moulded panelling and other fittings survive. (RCHM).

Listing NGR: TL4469858556

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 47270
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

Legal

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