Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius College is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Student residences. 13 related planning applications.
Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius College
- WRENN ID
- seventh-brass-hawk
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Student residences
- Address
- Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius College, West Road, CB3 9DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 443 581
- Coordinates
- 52.20259, 0.11054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harvey Court, part of Gonville and Caius College, is a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1960 and 1962 by architects Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson. This student residence features buff brick and bronze cladding with a flat roof, standing three storeys tall plus a basement.
The design includes a raised square courtyard surrounded on three sides by outward-facing windows. The courtyard has canted sides that allow natural light into the breakfast room located below. Each level of accommodation is set back, creating paved terrace areas in front of the rooms. Brick strips separate the rooms, and the full-height glazing is set in timber frames with two lights and a rail at dado height. The upper storeys overhang the outer perimeter, supported by tall brick piers, and there are expressed staircases. Vertical timber slatting is used, with windows positioned behind it.
Local climate
Harvey Court, Gonville and Caius 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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