Royal Albert Homes

1-25, Royal Albert Homes, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PP

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349070
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: Royal Albert Homes
Statutory Address:: 1-25, Royal Albert Homes, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1349070
Date first listed:: 02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: Royal Albert Homes
Statutory Address 1:: 1-25, Royal Albert Homes, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PP

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-25, Royal Albert Homes, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1PP

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 45896 57080

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 March 2020 to amend date of construction and reformat the text to current standards.

TL 4557 17/525

HILLS ROAD (west side) Royal Albert Homes Nos 1 to 25 (consec)

II Mid/Late C19. By Peck and Stephens of Maidstone. In three blocks.

Nos 9-20 (consec). Facing Hills Road. Foundation stone dated 1859. In the Gothic style. Grey gault brick with red and blue brick dressings and string course. Two storeys. Pointed headed windows, six-light below, two-light above. Panelled central tower with the clock missing. Many gabled slate roof with different sized gables.

Nos 1-8. Facing Brooklands Avenue. Dated JS 1877, and 1879 in different gables. As main block but lacking the tower. The gables are arranged in different sizes, LSSSLLSSSL with the larger ones set forward.

Nos 21-25 (consec). Block at rear. Probably slightly later. Five gables only, much plainer decoration.

Listing NGR: TL4589657080

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Legacy System number:: 47486
Legacy System:: LBS

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