Corpus Christi College, New Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. College building. 9 related planning applications.

Corpus Christi College, New Buildings

WRENN ID
worn-hammer-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
College building
Address
Corpus Christi College, New Buildings, 55-59, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RH
OS grid reference
TL 448 582
Coordinates
52.20345, 0.11774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corpus Christi College's New Buildings, located at numbers 55 to 59 on Trumpington Street, were constructed in 1826 based on designs by William Wilkins. These buildings, known as the 'New Buildings', feature grey gault brick with stone dressings and are designed in the Gothic style. They rise three storeys above a basement and have two windows on each floor, arranged in a 1:1 pattern. The buildings include a canted bay that extends through the basement, ground, and first floors. There are string courses on the top floor that create drip moulds over the windows, which are three-light windows with stone mullions. The entrances have panelled doors set within four-centred arches, although the door of No 57 is blocked. The roof level is castellated and gabled, but the roof itself is not visible. Additionally, there are good cast-iron area railings surrounding the buildings.

Local climate

Corpus Christi College, New 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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