St Catharine's College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. College. 17 related planning applications.

St Catharine's College

WRENN ID
vacant-moulding-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
College
Address
St Catharine's College, 68, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RL
OS grid reference
TL 448 581
Coordinates
52.2027, 0.11753
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Catharine's College, located at No 68 Trumpinton Street, is an early 19th-century building that was rebuilt in 1852. It is constructed of grey gault brick and features an impressive 19th-century shopfront adorned with Egyptian half-columns that have palm leaf capitals. The building stands four storeys tall and has three windows, which are fitted with 19th-century sash windows. There are decorative bands at the cill-levels of the first and fourth floors, as well as at the parapet level. The roof is not visible.

Local climate

St Catharine's College 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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