Central Buildings Churchill College is a Grade II listed building in the Cambridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. College building. 19 related planning applications.
Central Buildings Churchill College
- WRENN ID
- vast-casement-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cambridge
- Constituency
- Cambridge MP: Daniel Zeichner (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- College building
- Address
- Central Buildings Churchill College, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS
- OS grid reference
- TL 437 592
- Coordinates
- 52.21294, 0.10313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Central Buildings at Churchill College is a two-storey structure built between 1961 and 1968 by Sheppard Robson and Partners. It serves various functions, including a dining room, kitchens, common rooms, a boiler house, college offices, and the main entrance. The building features an irregular 'H' plan, with the dining hall linking two parallel ranges. The dining hall is situated on the upper floor and rises above the other sections, topped by three segmental barrel vaults. The exterior is made of brown brick and concrete, which includes both pre-cast and board-marked elements. There is a pre-cast concrete sunscreen with pre-cast mullions beneath the vaults. Inside, dark timber panelling is present, and the lower sections have horizontal strip windows with timber frames that include thick timber horizontals. The entrance is marked by a pair of giant brick piers, with a recessed area between them featuring a pivoting entrance gate made of aluminium, designed by sculptor Geoffrey Clarke. This building is an integral part of the planned layout of Churchill College.
Local climate
Central Buildings Churchill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 19 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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