RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, SIDGWICK AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1126006
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address:: RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, SIDGWICK AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1126006
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Statutory Address 1:: RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, SIDGWICK AVENUE

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:: RAISED FACULTY BLOCK, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, SIDGWICK AVENUE

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County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 44266 57986

Details

SIDGWICK AVENUE TL4457-4557 667/17/10030 Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University GV II Library and teaching rooms. 1956-68. Casson, Conder and Partners. Portland stone cladding, concrete frame; flat roof. Two storeys, "U" shaped, raised on pilotis. Floor slab chamfered and sculpted with round-cornered hollows. Long, narrow horizontal strip window below cornice band. Variety of fenestration including some long windows and some small single storey windows, in irregular arrangement. Integral part of Sidgwick Avenue layout, planned 1952. Nicholas Taylor, Cambridge New Architecture pp174-8.

Listing NGR: TL4426657986

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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.