CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS) UNIVERSITY PRESS

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS), TRUMPINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1126282
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS) UNIVERSITY PRESS
Statutory Address:: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS), TRUMPINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1126282
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS) UNIVERSITY PRESS
Statutory Address 1:: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS), TRUMPINGTON STREET
Statutory Address 2:: UNIVERSITY PRESS, TRUMPINGTON STREET

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:: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (PITT PRESS), TRUMPINGTON STREET
Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY PRESS, TRUMPINGTON STREET

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 44820 58098

Details

UNIVERSITY PRESS 1. 942 (Trumpington Street) TL 4458 SE 6/310 26.4.50. II 2. Also known as the Pitt Press. 1831. By Edward Blore. In the Gothic style. Ashlar faced, with a central tower rising above the flanking ranges. 3 storeys. 4-centred entrance archway with oriel window over; the hall has a vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs. The wings, the fenestration and the interior were all altered 1934-7 by Murray Easton, and the drip-moulds were removed. Pinnacles and a pierced, embattled parapet, slate mansard roof. (RCHM 22). The University Press has group value with the surrouding buildings.

Listing NGR: TL4482058098

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Legacy System number:: 47314
Legacy System:: LBS

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Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)

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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.