Cambridge Union Society Building Union Society Building

CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1331810
Date first listed:
18-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Cambridge Union Society Building Union Society Building
Statutory Address:
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1331810
Date first listed:
18-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Cambridge Union Society Building Union Society Building
Statutory Address 1:
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, ROUND CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 3:
UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE STREET

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address:
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, ROUND CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:
UNION SOCIETY BUILDING, BRIDGE 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 44917 58829

Details

UNION SOCIETY BUILDING 1. 942 (Bridge Street) TL 4458 NE 3/423 18.5.67. II 2. 1866 by A Waterhouse. Well planned forecourt. Red brick with coloured bands. Stone dressings. Hard detail. There have been several additions, in 1885 the North Wing, and in mid C2O. The interior has been re-modelled in 1933-4 and in 1949, Venetian Gothic detailing. 2-light windows with attached columns between. Pointed arched doorway with oriel above. Buttressed ground floor. Detail cornices at first floor and eaves level. Tiled roof with gables and finials.

Listing NGR: TL4491758829

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
47311
Legacy System:
LBS

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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