Market Hill Buildings (St Michael'S Court), Gonville And Caius College

CAMBRIDGE MARKET HILL TL 4458 NE 667- /3/10039 Market Hill Buildings (St Michael's Court), Gonville and Caius College GV II Includes: Nos.16-21 MARKET HILL. College buildings and shops. 1937. By J Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson. Portland stone (to Market Hill) and Ketton stone (to Rose Crescent and St Mary's Court) with flat roofs. Modern style with slightly curving front. 5 storeys; 9-window range in all to main front. 4-light metal casements with curving casements to far left corner and slit windows to far right. The principal windows are slightly recessed and on the lower 3 floors the canted jambs have panels of fine carving. On ground floor behind an open colonnade is a row of shops (nos.16-21 Market Hill). To far right set back is a similar slightly taller section with 2-light casements which returns into Rose Crescent, and which then continues in a recessed section to project again for the final bay. The rear has 6/6 sashes with moulded architraves and a cornice below the attic storey which has 2-light casements. The architect won the RIBA bronze medal for his design which Pevsner describes as the best modern building of its date in Cambridge. (Pevsner, N, BOE, Cambridgeshire, p.81)

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