Selwyn College, Gateway and Screen Between the North Range and the Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Gateway, screen.

Selwyn College, Gateway and Screen Between the North Range and the Chapel

WRENN ID
ruined-bonework-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1972
Type
Gateway, screen
OS grid reference
TL 440 579
Coordinates
52.20113, 0.1067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Selwyn College features a gateway and screen located between the North Range and the Chapel, built between 1882 and 1889 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. The structure consists of a red brick dwarf wall topped with a wrought-iron screen, which is set into brick piers adorned with vase finials. It also includes wrought-iron gates with an overthrow.

Local climate

Selwyn College, Gateway and Screen Between the North Range and the Chapel 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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