Downing Site

The Downing Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city of Cambridge, England, on Downing Street and Tennis Court Road, adjacent to Downing College.

Largely populated with utilitarian brick buildings dating from the 1930s, the more notable buildings include the Zoology Laboratory (1900–04), Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (1904–11) and Downing Street entrance (1904–11).

The current site was part of Pembroke Leys, a boggy area of small fields lying between Regent Street and Tennis Court Road, to the south of the medieval town of Cambridge.

This northern portion was purchased by the university in 1895 for £15,000, and now forms the Downing Site.

[1] Though several university departments have recently relocated to larger modern buildings elsewhere, the Downing Site still houses many departments, predominantly in the biomedical sciences.

The University of Cambridge Department of Geography on the Downing Site, at the southeast end of Downing Place , off Downing Street.
The University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences on the Downing Site.
Department of Plant Sciences