Newnham College, Pfeiffer Building
NEWNHAM COLLEGE, PFEIFFER BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125506
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Newnham College, Pfeiffer Building
- Statutory Address:
- NEWNHAM COLLEGE, PFEIFFER BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1125506
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Newnham College, Pfeiffer Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEWNHAM COLLEGE, PFEIFFER BUILDING
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NEWNHAM COLLEGE, PFEIFFER BUILDING
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 44203 57802
Details
NEWNHAM COLLEGE 1. 942 Pfeiffer Building TL 4457 17/360 18.5.67. II* 2. 1892. Four storey gateway with modern wings. Dutch Baroque style with three different orders. Corner turrets with ogee heads, forming a canted bay with three sash windows on each level. Central elliptical arch with wrought-iron screen designed by Champneys and made by Elsey, 1893. Three round-headed windows on each floor above the arch. Pantiled roof. The long Neo-Georgian range to the North connects the Pfeiffer Building with Sidgewick Hall.
Listing NGR: TL4420357802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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