Newnham College, Kennedy Buildings is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. College building.

Newnham College, Kennedy Buildings

WRENN ID
western-wattle-flax
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
College building
OS grid reference
TL 440 578
Coordinates
52.20029, 0.10591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Newnham College's Kennedy Buildings, built in 1905, is a two-storey structure with an attic. The building features quoins and has a seven-bay arcaded front facing the street, which includes a central doorway and fanlights in the other arches. Above, the windows are set in sunk panels, arranged as two round, three square, and two round. The eaves are supported by shaped brackets, and the mansard roof has continuous eaves above the dormer windows. There are tall stacks, and the street front is balustraded at the eaves level.

Local climate

Newnham College, Kennedy Buildings 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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