Arts Theatre Workshop and Store is a Grade II* listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Theatre. 1 related planning application.
Arts Theatre Workshop and Store
- WRENN ID
- nether-step-ochre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- Arts Theatre Workshop and Store, 36, Newmarket Road, CB5 8DT
- OS grid reference
- TL 459 587
- Coordinates
- 52.20789, 0.13449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is an arts theatre workshop and store, originally built in 1816 as a theatre. It was located in Barnwell due to restrictions on entertainment in Cambridge University town. The interior represents a remarkably complete example of a Georgian theatre, featuring a three-tiered horseshoe-shaped auditorium supported by cast iron columns. While the original decoration on the gallery fronts is no longer present, a painting of the Royal Arms remains above the proscenium. The theatre was closed during the 19th century and later used as a Nonconformist chapel before being reopened and subsequently closed again between the two World Wars. Around 1926, it was altered by Terence Gray, with architectural work led by Harold Ridge and Norman Marshall. These changes included removing the original proscenium arch and introducing a cyclorama and a revolving stage, reflecting early adoption of modern stage technology pioneered by Gordon Craig in the 1920s.
Local climate
Arts Theatre Workshop and Store 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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