Magdalene College, Pepys Building
MAGDALENE COLLEGE, PEPYS BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332183
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalene College, Pepys Building
- Statutory Address:
- MAGDALENE COLLEGE, PEPYS BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332183
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalene College, Pepys Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGDALENE COLLEGE, PEPYS BUILDING
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:
- MAGDALENE COLLEGE, PEPYS BUILDING
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 44734 59055
Details
MAGDALENE COLLEGE 1. 942 Pepys Building (Formerly listed as Pepysian Library) TL 4459 15/273 26.4.50. I 2. Built between 1670 and 1703, a highly remarkable classical building of the date with contemporary staircases and the bookcases presented by Samuel Pepys. The West front is ashlar faced, the rest brick with stone dressings. 3 storeys, attic and cellar. Main five-bay frontage. Tiled roof. Central open arcade with five semi-elliptical arches with, Doric, Roman Doric and Ionic pilasters. The entablature has painted 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana, 1724', the date the library was moved there and not of the building. There are two open staircases on either side of the arcade. The interior was altered in the C19 but still contains two original staircases and a fireplace surround. There are also C18 doors and panelling, and other features from the C18 and C19. The Pepy's Library contains his twelve bookcases of 1666, with his books, and his writing desk. (RCHM)
Listing NGR: TL4473459055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
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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