Market Hill Buildings (St Michael's Court) , Gonville and Caius College
16-21, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200398
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hill Buildings (St Michael's Court) , Gonville and Caius College
- Statutory Address:
- 16-21, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200398
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Market Hill Buildings (St Michael's Court) , Gonville and Caius College
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16-21, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARKET HILL BUILDINGS (ST MICHAEL'S COURT), GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, MARKET HILL
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:
- 16-21, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET HILL BUILDINGS (ST MICHAEL'S COURT), GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, MARKET HILL
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 44875 58503
Details
CAMBRIDGE MARKET HILL TL 4458 NE 667- /3/10039 Market Hill Buildings (St Michael's Court), Gonville and Caius College GV II Includes: Nos.16-21 MARKET HILL. College buildings and shops. 1937. By J Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson. Portland stone (to Market Hill) and Ketton stone (to Rose Crescent and St Mary's Court) with flat roofs. Modern style with slightly curving front. 5 storeys; 9-window range in all to main front. 4-light metal casements with curving casements to far left corner and slit windows to far right. The principal windows are slightly recessed and on the lower 3 floors the canted jambs have panels of fine carving. On ground floor behind an open colonnade is a row of shops (nos.16-21 Market Hill). To far right set back is a similar slightly taller section with 2-light casements which returns into Rose Crescent, and which then continues in a recessed section to project again for the final bay. The rear has 6/6 sashes with moulded architraves and a cornice below the attic storey which has 2-light casements. The architect won the RIBA bronze medal for his design which Pevsner describes as the best modern building of its date in Cambridge. (Pevsner, N, BOE, Cambridgeshire, p.81)
Listing NGR: TL4487558503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350347
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 81
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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