Emmanuel College, The Library is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. Library. 1 related planning application.

Emmanuel College, The Library

WRENN ID
swift-obsidian-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
Library
Address
Emmanuel College, The Library, CB2 3AH
OS grid reference
TL 453 582
Coordinates
52.20342, 0.12539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Library at Emmanuel College was built in 1909 by Leonard Stokes. It features alternating vertical bays of brick and stone, with a stone cornice and a shaped parapet. The building has a hipped tiled roof topped with a central cupola and is two storeys tall. The first floor showcases large stone mullion and transom windows with a "flat" detail, while the ground floor has smaller windows designed in Stokes's "flat" Perpendicular style. The building also includes good carved stone details. An additional third bay was added in 1930.

Local climate

Emmanuel College, The Library 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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