Christ's College, 'X' Staircase is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. College. 4 related planning applications.

Christ's College, 'X' Staircase

WRENN ID
distant-buttress-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cambridge
Constituency
Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1950
Type
College
Address
Christ's College, 'X' Staircase, 32, Hobson Street, CB2 3BU
OS grid reference
TL 450 586
Coordinates
52.20675, 0.12169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Christ's College 'X' Staircase, located at No 32 Hobson Street, is a building from the 17th century with an 18th-century front. It is timber-framed and features fine mathematical tiling on the front. The building has two storeys with attics and a wooden cornice with modillions at the eaves. There are three windows and a central doorway that has a four-fielded panelled door with a moulded architrave and a semi-circular fanlight above. This doorway is flanked by carved scroll brackets with dentilled cornices and pediments. To the left of the doorway are two windows, and to the right is a two-light window, all of which have glazing bars. The building also includes two flat-topped dormers and a tiled roof. Inside, notable features include chamfered beams, as well as 18th-century panelling and a staircase.

Local climate

Christ's College, 'X' Staircase 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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