Listed buildings in Cambridge (west)

This was the West Fields, which largely passed into the ownership of the Cambridge colleges, particularly St John's, after enclosure in 1805, and was little developed until after 1870;[2][3] the older population centres of Castle Hill and Newnham[4] are excluded from this list.

The earliest university building was the Observatory, built north of Madingley Road in 1822–24 on a green-field site, then far from the town.

[2] Clare College was the first to build accommodation west of Queen's Road with Memorial Court (from 1923), and the University Library moved to a new building on an adjacent site off West Road in 1931–34.

[8] Residential development in the area accelerated in the late 19th century, when substantial detached family houses set in large plots of 0.5–1.0 acres or more were built to accommodate married academics and well-off professionals, often designed by well-known London-based architects, including M. H. Baillie Scott, J. J. Stevenson and E. S.

[2][9] Most of the houses are traditional in appearance, including Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne styles.