GIRTON COLLEGE

GIRTON COLLEGE, HUNTINGDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331334
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: GIRTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: GIRTON COLLEGE, HUNTINGDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331334
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: GIRTON COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: GIRTON COLLEGE, HUNTINGDON 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:: GIRTON COLLEGE, HUNTINGDON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Girton
National Grid Reference:: TL 42450 60932

Details

TL 46SW GIRTON HUNTINGDON ROAD (West Side)

8/72 Girton College

GV II*

College by Alfred Waterhouse. 1873 with additions of 1876, 1883 and 1886. Red brick, English bond, with black mortar courses and terracotta details to windows, doorways and eaves. Steeply pitched roofs of patterned tiles with crested ridge tiles. Tall ridge stacks. Original plan of sets of rooms with corridor access. In Neo-Tudor style. Two storeys and attics. Pointed arches to hung sashes with plate glass, in segmental heads. Parapetted, five stage gatehouse tower of 1886-7 over vaulted carriageway entry. In 1891 Paul Waterhouse, his son, joined the partnership. Cloister Court, including the dining hall, chapel and part of Woodlands Court was built in 1900-02 in a similar style. The rest of Woodlands Court and the library were completed in 1931-2 by Michael Waterhouse, the grandson, with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott as consultant. Paler red brick, English bond with steeply pitched tiled roofs. Stone surrounds and four centred arches to casements and doorways. Interior: The dining hall has a hammer-beam roof and original light fittings and the library a roof of king-post construction and arch bracing to the tie beams. Pevsner. Buildings of England p.190 Dixon and Muthesius. Victorian Architecure

Listing NGR: TL4245060932

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

Legacy System number:: 50818
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dixon, R, Muthesius, S, Victorian Architecture, (1978)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 190

Legal

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