St John's College, Gateway to St John's Street to South of the College Buildings is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. A Early C16 Gateway, archway.

St John's College, Gateway to St John's Street to South of the College Buildings

WRENN ID
unlit-marble-russet
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
Gateway, archway
OS grid reference
TL 448 587
Coordinates
52.20752, 0.11773
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The gateway to St John's Street, located to the south of St John's College, is an early 16th-century structure that was reset in its current position in 1855. It features a red brick two-centred archway topped with a crow-stepped gable.

Local climate

St John's College, Gateway to St John's Street to South of the College Buildings sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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