Downing Street, Cambridge

Corn Exchange Street and St Tibbs Row lead off to the north.

The architect William Wilkins was tasked by the trustees of the Downing estate to design the plan for the college.

Wilkins, a devotee of the neoclassical architectural style, designed the first campus-based college layout in the world with a magnificent entrance planned on Downing Street, reaching back to form the largest court in Cambridge, extending to Lensfield Road far to the south.

Much of the northern end of the Pembroke Leys was sold to the University and is now home to scientific departments and museums on the Downing Site.

Just to the west is the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Free School Lane off Pembroke Street.

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences , on Downing Street.
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , on the corner of Downing Street and Tennis Court Road .
Toward Pembroke Street through Downing Street.
Front facade of Emmanuel College, Cambridge viewed from Downing Street.