William Stone Building, Peterhouse College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. Residential building. 3 related planning applications.
William Stone Building, Peterhouse College
- WRENN ID
- still-rafter-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- William Stone Building, Peterhouse College, Trumpington Street, CB2 1QY
- OS grid reference
- TL 449 577
- Coordinates
- 52.19879, 0.11992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The William Stone Building at Peterhouse College is a residential building constructed between 1963 and 1964, designed by Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson. It is made of buff brick with copper cladding and features a flat roof. The building has an irregular plan with staggered rooms that face west and stands eight storeys tall. It is characterized by horizontal strip windows with bull-nosed cills and varnished timber frames. Above the top storey window, there is copper sheet cladding. The eastern elevation includes a prominent rectangular staircase and lift tower that rises above the roof line, along with narrow horizontal strip windows. This building is noted for its contribution to Cambridge's modern architectural landscape.
Local climate
William Stone Building, Peterhouse College 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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- Fitzwilliam Museum and boundary wall, plinths and gates to the north-east
- K6 Telephone Kiosk outside St Peter's Terrace
- Railings and Gates of St Peter's Terrace Fronting Trumpington Street
- Gates of the Engineering Laboratories Facing Coe Fen
- Construction in Aluminium by Kenneth Martin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Hobson's Conduit
- 21, Trumpington Street
- 18 and 19, Trumpington Street