2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392069
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD
Statutory Address:: 2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392069
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: 2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD

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:: 2 AND 2A, GRANTCHESTER ROAD

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 43644 57497

Details

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TL45NW GRANTCHESTER ROAD 667/20/10108 2 & 2A 12-APR-00

II Pair of houses with garages, one with studio. 1961-4 by Colin St John Wilson, that with studio for himself, the other for Dr Peter Squire. Frank Newby engineer. 8" x 16" concrete block made with crushed Abergele limestone and waterproof white cement with white aggregate concrete beams exposed. Similarly-planned houses, that for Wilson set behind office range which projects to building line to front, and which has first-floor drawing office set over colonnade into forecourt patio. L' shaped houses, with staircases on corner, that to Dr Squire's house a spiral stair, and living rooms in projecting rear wing, that to Wilson's house of double-height with library balcony. Garages to right of each plot a continuous part of the composition, the regular colonnaded facade described by Colin Rowe as the smallest monument in Cambridge'. Double-glazed sashes to smaller windows, large single double-glazed panes to living rooms. Interiors of fair-faced blockwork except in bedrooms and bathroom which are plastered. Dark stained timber to doors and stairs, and white rubber floorings. Wilson's kitchen retains its original cupboards.

Included as a powerful, uncompromising design, at once modern yet classical in its formality. `These are two of the best houses produced in this country within the last few years' (Architect and Building News 7 July 1965). `A study of rationalised and variable urban row house series and a rigorous and groundbreaking exercise in the use of naked concrete blockwork. His own house was a small monument with its cubic double height living room, its insistent columniation, its austere materials.' (Martin Richardson in Colin St John Wilson, RIBA, 1997, p.19.) Two of only three private houses designed by Sir Colin St John Wilson in the 1960s, and of particular interest in including a house and studio for himself.

Sources Architect and Building News 7 July 1965, pp.11-15 Architectural Design, November 1965, pp.546-9 Byggekunst, no.3, 1967, pp.70-1 Colin St John Wilson, Architect, n.d. c.1972 Colin St John Wilson, RIBA, 1997

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 498041
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Booth, P, Taylor, N, Cambridge New Architecture, (1970)
Frampton, , Richardson, , Colin St John Wilson, (1997)
'Architect and Building News' in 7 July, (1965), 11-15
'Architectural Design' in November, (1965), 546-9

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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.