Downing College, West Gate Onto Tennis Court Road, Including Short Screen Walls on Either Side is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1972. Academic building. 4 related planning applications.
Downing College, West Gate Onto Tennis Court Road, Including Short Screen Walls on Either Side
- WRENN ID
- standing-passage-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1972
- Type
- Academic building
- OS grid reference
- TL 451 579
- Coordinates
- 52.20033, 0.12218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Downing College features a West Gate onto Tennis Court Road, which includes short screen walls on either side. This structure, built in the early 20th century, has semi-circular wings made of grey gault brick that are connected to the main wall with stone quoins. The gate is flanked by brick piers that have stone plinths and caps, and it is adorned with wrought-iron gates that include a side wicket.
Local climate
Downing College, West Gate Onto Tennis Court Road, Including Short Screen Walls on Either Side 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 — 4 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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