Harrington House Kent House Montagu House Sidney House Sussex House is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1996. Shopping arcade, offices, college accommodation. 13 related planning applications.
Harrington House Kent House Montagu House Sidney House Sussex House
- WRENN ID
- tired-rubble-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1996
- Type
- Shopping arcade, offices, college accommodation
- Address
- Harrington House Kent House Montagu House Sidney House Sussex House, 1-20, Sussex Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 450 586
- Coordinates
- 52.2067, 0.12113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Montagu House, Harrington House, Kent House, Sussex House, and Sidney House form a shopping arcade, offices, and college accommodation located on Sussex Street in Cambridge. The south side was built between 1928 and 1932, while the north side was constructed from 1938 to 1939, designed by E.R. Barrow. The buildings are made of red brick with pantiled roofs on the south side and plaintiled roofs on the north side.
The south side features three storeys and a dormer attic, with a ground floor that includes an open bowed arcade of 11 bays, supported by unfluted Roman Doric columns. This arcade houses a range of shops with late 20th-century plate-glass display windows. Access to the upper arcade is provided by balustraded stone staircases on both the east and west sides, leading to offices that occupy two storeys and a dormer attic. The lower floor has 12/12 horned sashes, while the upper floor features 8/8 horned sashes. The roofs are hipped with dormers, and the corners of the elevation are accentuated with rusticated quoins.
The north side consists of a 10-bay arcade of Roman Doric columns that support offices, which are lit by 12/12 horned sashes on the first floor and 8/8 horned sashes on the second floor. This side also has hipped roofs with two tiers of dormers. At the rear, college accommodation is accessible via a terrace and stair. Additional four-storey corner blocks with dormer attics are located at the east and west ends, and a linking bridge at the upper level on the east end was added in 1991 by Pleasance, Hookham, and Nix. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Harrington House Kent House Montagu House Sidney House Sussex House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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