Clare Hall West Court Building Cambridge, 7 Herschel Road property design, England architecture project photo
Clare Hall – West Court Building, Cambridge
Development in Cambridge, southeast England design by NRAP architects, United Kingdom.
post updated 18 July 2024
Design: NRAP, architects
Address: 7 Herschel Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AG, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1223 332360
picture : Dennis Gilbert/View
Clare Hall Cambridge Building
3 March 2009
Clare Hall West Court Building
Having exhausted the potential for expansion within the complex, the college purchased a large 1960’s house with extensive grounds located nearby. We converted it to provide flats for visiting Fellows and obtained Planning Permission to build a new court in the garden to the west.
This court (West Court) is formed by the Paul Mellon Building containing 11 flats for visiting Fellows and the Robert Honeycombe building which provides 13 graduate study bedrooms.
The flats are two-way facing, four to a staircase, and with the exception of a disabled persons flat, have two bedrooms.
Clare Hall West Court Building Cambridge photo / information from NRAP 050309
The Forbes Mellon Library was opened in 1986 and is named after two major benefactors, Mansfield Forbes, a fomer Fellow, and Paul Mellon, an undergraduate at Clare, 1929-31. It is situated in Memorial Court in a building of considerable architectural interest designed by Sir Philip Dowson. The building also houses a student common room, three music practice rooms, and a recital/lecture room.
source: http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/Forbes-Mellon-Library-and-Lipstein-Law-Reading-Room/
The architects note on their website, “The study bedrooms are mostly south facing looking over the garden, the first floor rooms having small balconies. They are entered from a generous double-height gallery lit from above and from each end by large high level windows. The project also included refurbishing and extending a swimming pool and gymnasium, and a new tennis court.”
source: http://www.nrap.co.uk/portfolio/clare-hall-west-court-2/
Location: Clare Hall West Court, 7 Herschel Road, Cambridge, southeast England, United Kingdom.
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