Downing College, The East and West Ranges, Including the Hall, The Master's Lodge and the East and West Lodges is a Grade I listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. College. 2 related planning applications.
Downing College, The East and West Ranges, Including the Hall, The Master's Lodge and the East and West Lodges
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-dormer-alder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- College
- Address
- Downing College, The East and West Ranges, Including the Hall, The Master's Lodge and the East and West Lodges, CB2 1DQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 452 579
- Coordinates
- 52.20029, 0.12328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downing College features the East and West Ranges, including the Hall, the Master's Lodge, and the East and West Lodges. Built between 1807 and 1821, with alterations from 1874 to 1876, the buildings were designed by William Wilkins and completed by E M Barry. The design includes a hexastyle Ionic portico facing the court and a tetrastyle portico facing south for both the Hall and the Master's Lodge at the southern end of each range. These structures are flanked to the north by detached blocks connected only by single-storey screen walls. The buildings are constructed of gault brick faced in Ketton stone, with two storeys and attics. Barry made changes to the Hall's interior and completed the northern ranges of chambers, as well as constructing behind the screen walls. Many original interior features remain, although the Hall was enlarged during modernization in 1968-1969.
Local climate
Downing College, The East and West Ranges, Including the Hall, The Master's Lodge and the East and West Lodges 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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