King's College, Scott's Building is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1967. Building.

King's College, Scott's Building

WRENN ID
tired-kitchen-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 May 1967
Type
Building
OS grid reference
TL 447 582
Coordinates
52.20373, 0.1173
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Scott's Building at King's College was constructed in 1870 by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic style. It features a five-bay frontage facing King's Parade and stands three storeys tall. The building includes two-light transomed windows and two oriel windows on the first floor. A corner turret is capped by a crown, and the roof is gabled. There is some medieval-style carving present on the building.

Local climate

King's College, Scott's Building 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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