Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Library, teaching rooms. 6 related planning applications.

Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University

WRENN ID
eastward-gravel-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
Library, teaching rooms
Address
Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA
OS grid reference
TL 442 579
Coordinates
52.20124, 0.1096
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Raised Faculty Block at Cambridge University is a library and teaching space built between 1956 and 1968 by Casson, Conder and Partners. It features Portland stone cladding and a concrete frame with a flat roof. The building is two storeys high and has a "U" shape, raised on pilotis. The floor slab is chamfered and sculpted with round-cornered hollows. There is a long, narrow horizontal strip window located below a cornice band, along with a variety of fenestration that includes some long windows and smaller single-storey windows arranged in an irregular pattern. This building is an integral part of the Sidgwick Avenue layout, which was planned in 1952.

Local climate

Raised Faculty Block, Cambridge University 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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