Corpus Christi College, New Buildings

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, NEW BUILDINGS, 55-59, TRUMPINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1332171
Date first listed:
18-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Corpus Christi College, New Buildings
Statutory Address:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, NEW BUILDINGS, 55-59, TRUMPINGTON STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1332171
Date first listed:
18-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Corpus Christi College, New Buildings
Statutory Address 1:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, NEW BUILDINGS, 55-59, TRUMPINGTON STREET

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

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:
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, NEW BUILDINGS, 55-59, 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 44815 58247

Details

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE 1. 942 New Buildings [Nos 55 to 59 (consec) Trumpington Street] TL 4458 SE 6/324 18.5.67. II 2. Known as the 'New Buildings. The numbers refer to business premises, there are students' rooms above. 1826, from the Office of William Wilkins. Grey gault brick with stone dressings. In the Gothic style. 3 storeys and basement, 2 windows, 1:1. Canted bay through basement, ground and 1st floors. String courses on the top floor forming drip moulds over the windows. 3-light windows with stone mullions. Panelled doors in fourcentred arches, the door of No 57 is blocked. Castellated and gabled at roof level, roof not visible. Good cast-iron area railings. (RCHM.)

Listing NGR: TL4481558247

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
47122
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Sources

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

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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