Corpus Christi College, George Thomson Building, Leckhampton House

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, GEORGE THOMSON BUILDING, LECKHAMPTON HOUSE, GRANGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126003
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Corpus Christi College, George Thomson Building, Leckhampton House
Statutory Address:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, GEORGE THOMSON BUILDING, LECKHAMPTON HOUSE, GRANGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126003
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Corpus Christi College, George Thomson Building, Leckhampton House
Statutory Address 1:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, GEORGE THOMSON BUILDING, LECKHAMPTON HOUSE, GRANGE ROAD

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, GEORGE THOMSON BUILDING, LECKHAMPTON HOUSE, GRANGE ROAD

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:
TL4365157973

Details

The following building shall be added to the list-

GRANGE ROAD TL 45 NW 667/20/10027 George Thomson Bldg. Leckhampton House, Corpus Christi College II Graduate residence. 1963-64. Philip Dowson of Arup Associates. Pre-cast concrete frame and red brick. 5 storeys. Pair of blocks with a staggered brick link. Fully glazed student rooms, set back behind concrete frame with paired verticals and expressed horizontals at floor and roof heights; narrower concrete balustrades to upper levels. Link with brick panels and glazing introduced at the junctions. N. Taylor, Cambridge New Architecture.

Listing NGR: TL4369057995

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Legacy System number:
47936
Legacy System:
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Taylor, N, Cambridge New Architecture, ()

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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