48, Grange Road

48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268364
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1996
List Entry Name:
48, Grange Road
Statutory Address:
48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH

Have you got a photo to share?

Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268364
Date first listed:
02-Aug-1996
List Entry Name:
48, Grange Road
Statutory Address 1:
48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
48, Grange Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DH

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 44015 58205

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 July 2023 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards

TL 4458
667- /16/10049

CAMBRIDGE
GRANGE ROAD (east side)
No.48

II
House. c.1880 probably by Basil Champneys. Converted to student residences late 1940s. Red brick laid in English bond; machine tile roof. Principal facade to south. Two storeys and dormer attic in four-window range. Centre two bays recessed and lit through two 6/6 unhorned sashes to each floor. Scalloped sash hoods. Plain aprons to ground-floor windows, ogeed aprons above. One circular window to each floor to right and left of sashes, with keyblocks. These light fireplace inglenooks. Outer bays each with a full-height canted timber bay window consisting of central two-light casements beneath an arched light with radial glazing bars. Six/six unhorned sashes either side. Ground-floor casements developed into French windows. Panelled frieze between the storeys, and a pediment over ground floor. Gabled roof. Wide weatherboarded gable-ends over the outer bays, each with one two-light casement. Central gabled dormer fitted with a four-light casement. Twin panelled stacks on ridge. Symmetry of north elevation compromised by early C20 extension to left. One central tripartite window to each floor of same design as south front, similar gabled dormer in roof. Doorway set to right under deep coved hood.

INTERIOR: principal room to south-west corner on ground floor: eared timber chimneypiece with scrolled bifurcated decoration and panelled mantel shelf. Panelled overmantel. Inglenook created by screen of panelled pilasters supporting a frieze. Open string staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TL4401558205

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
461898
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, Sweetness And Light, the Queen Anne Movement 1860 -1900, (1977 ), 125

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 48, Grange Road

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 06-Jun-2026 at 08:54:46.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos